March 13, 2024: Absent a smoking gun, Republicans consider impeachment offramps

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

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Republicans on the Hill were hoping that Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony Tuesday would kickstart their stalled impeachment campaign, but that isn’t how things shook out. Without the smoking gun Republicans were hoping for from Hur, they now must face the reality that an impeachment of President Joe Biden is increasingly unlikely. Congress reporter Jordain Carney joins Playbook co-author Rachael Bade to discuss. Plus, Biden and former president Donald Trump clinch their respective party nominations, and TikTok may be on the chopping block. All that, plus the rest of the news you need to know today. Playbook co-author Rachael Bade interviews Congress reporter Jordain Carney.

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0:00.0	Presented by Invest in Our Land.
0:07.3	Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Wednesday, March 13th. Here's what's driving the day.
0:13.8	Get ready for Biden v. Trump 2.0. Last night, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump,
0:20.0	both got enough delegates to get
0:21.5	the official nod to become their party's presumptive nominee. Let the games begin.
0:27.9	If you didn't believe it before, you might believe it now, that the Nikki Haley voter will
0:32.8	actually determine the winner of the general election. In 2020, Donald Trump lost Georgia by less than 12,000
0:38.9	votes. But despite dropping out of the race last week, Nikki Haley amassed more than 62,000 votes.
0:45.6	Of course, some of those were actually early voting before she made that announcement.
0:49.8	The House is expected to vote this morning to effectively ban TikTok, That is, if its Chinese counterpart, doesn't divest.
0:57.1	This morning, The Washington Post has an interesting story about Trump's about face on TikTok.
1:01.6	It's worth reading for anything to get to know who's still influential in Trump world.
1:06.4	Kellyanne Conway, who's been helping TikTok with Hill phone calls,
1:09.9	reportedly told Trump that the app was
1:11.9	popular with his supporters and that they weren't being censored on that application.
1:16.8	David Urban, a longtime Trump advisor, turned lobbyist for Byte Dance, apparently pitched Trump's
1:21.6	effectiveness as a campaign tool for Trump World. He also met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week.
1:27.2	And finally, Trump's former aide, Tony Sayah, who now works for Trump World. He also met with Trump at Mara Lago last week. And finally, Trump's former
1:28.4	aide, Tony Sayah, who now works for billionaire TikTok investor Jeff Yes, also has been making
1:33.8	the case to Trump World. He's close with Trump's spokesman Jason Miller, and Trump apparently
1:38.5	calls Sayah, quote, Tony the taxman because of his work on Trump's tax cuts. And as for the big story leading playbook today, Republicans look for an off-ramp on
1:48.6	impeachment.
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