March 16, 2018
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 16 March 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, |
| 0:04.9 | sponsored by the Business Roundtable. And I'm Anna Palmer. You're invited to join us for our first |
| 0:09.9 | playbook university in North Carolina with Governor Roy Cooper on March 29th at Penn Pavilion at Duke |
| 0:17.0 | University. Doors open at 1145 a.m. And now on to the news. Many Democrats are going to |
| 0:23.4 | run in November on being a check on President Donald Trump and the chaos that he sews in the White |
| 0:28.9 | House. Take a look around, and it doesn't look like it will be hard. The president just pushed |
| 0:35.1 | out his Secretary of State. Now he's considering pushing out his national security advisor and possibly his chief of staff, |
| 0:43.3 | maybe his VA secretary and attorney general. |
| 0:46.6 | The Mueller probe is moving closer and closer to Trump personally, |
| 0:51.0 | as the special counsel subpoenaed the president's business. |
| 1:00.0 | That's not all. The president has tackled between completely divergent positions on everything from gun control to immigration. A large number of government positions are unfilled, including critical ambassadorships. |
| 1:04.0 | Trump keeps looking to cable news as his hiring pool. |
| 1:06.0 | A porn star who says she was paid a six-figure hush payment by Trump's lawyer to cover up an affair |
| 1:11.4 | is going on CBS's 60 minutes and nine days. Republicans will try to localize their races and talk |
| 1:16.8 | about the strength of the economy and how they delivered on tax cuts. Trump is certainly |
| 1:20.9 | providing strong fodder for Democrats and a year Republicans are expecting significant losses. |
| 1:26.1 | The Washington Post has the latest turn in the HR McMaster |
| 1:29.1 | versus Trump drama. The Post reports that Trump has decided to remove McMaster and is actively |
| 1:35.8 | discussing potential replacements. Of course, Trump and McMaster never really jelled, and there has been |
| 1:42.6 | widespread speculation that he has been on the outs with |
| 1:45.6 | Trump for months. The New York Times has a piece up that not only is McMaster on thin ice, |
| 1:50.7 | but so is Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, after aggravating the president by privately |
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