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The Playbook Podcast

March 19, 2018

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The last must-pass bill of the year, a newly emboldened Trump and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by United Health Group.

0:08.0

And I'm Jake Sherman. If you have a legislative priority, this is the week to bring it up as Congress has its last must-pass bill of the year on the floor.

0:15.4

The massive omnibus spending package, which will fund government to the end of September, could include language on everything

0:20.8

from campaign finance to pesticides. It will come out today. Bob Corker will meet with Mike Pompeo this

0:26.9

afternoon as he begins to make his rounds before his confirmation hearings. The Senate Foreign

0:31.2

Relations Committee, which Corker chairs, will hold hearings on Pompeo's nomination for Secretary

0:35.9

of State in April. We've got a first in playbook.

0:39.1

Vogue is profiling Kamala Harris in the April issue, reporting that Harris doesn't back down

0:44.9

and on the persisting 2020 rumors. In the Department of Early and Often, Senate Majority Pack

0:51.1

just reported spending more than $300,000 to boost Senator Claire McCaskill

0:56.8

in Missouri and dump on her opponent, Josh Hawley.

1:00.4

Meanwhile, here's a quick look at what's happening in Trump World.

1:03.6

The New York Times is reporting that Trump is newly emboldened, saying what he really feels.

1:09.1

While New York Magazine is diving deep into what Hope Hicks knows and how her departure has created

1:14.4

even deeper chaos in the White House.

1:17.0

In the Department of This Happens to All of Us, CNN is reporting that Ivanka and Jared's

1:21.0

helicopter had to return to an airport in D.C. on Thursday after one of its engines failed.

1:26.2

No word on why the two were traveling by helicopter

1:28.3

and not plane. Dan Diamond has the preview of Trump's opioid address, which will now scale

1:32.8

back plans to punish drug dealers. Today, the president and first lady will head to Manchester,

1:37.9

New Hampshire. Trump will give a speech at Manchester Community College about combating the opioid

1:43.1

crisis, and they are then scheduled

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