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The Playbook Podcast

March 2, 2018

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Who is funding the House GOP super PAC, Trump meets with the NRA and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Friday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing,

0:05.4

sponsored by the Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs.

0:08.8

Get ready for the first March storm of the season.

0:11.9

The federal government is closed because of the weather.

0:14.8

The Capitol Weather Gang is reporting that a powerful storm is coming today and Saturday

0:19.4

and is shaping up to be the most destructive noreaster of the season and shaping up to be the most destructive

0:21.6

nor-easter of the season.

0:23.7

And it could be the most destructive in decades for some along the coast.

0:28.0

Here's crossing my fingers that it's an easy trip from New York to D.C. this morning.

0:32.1

This morning we're answering a question.

0:34.3

You all have probably been wondering, who is actually funding the House

0:38.5

GOP Super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund? The fund got $1.9 million from Chevron,

0:45.4

$1 million from Tesoro Corporation, an oil and gas company. Bernie Marcus, the co-founder

0:51.0

of Home Depot, gave it $504,000.

0:57.6

CLF has been spending big in the Pennsylvania special election.

1:05.2

The Washington Post is on the ground there and reports that Republicans have struggled to land a blow against Democrat Conor Lamb.

1:10.1

Right now, the race is in single digits, despite it being a solidly Republican district.

1:11.4

The New York Times has the big picture take on how Trump's chaos theory is taking its toll. Trump is isolated and angry, while

1:17.2

morale in the West Wing is at an all-time low. And here's the latest on guns. The NRA is pushing back

1:23.1

publicly after meeting with Trump last night. Its top lobbyist Chris Cox posted on Twitter that the president and vice president support

1:31.0

the Second Amendment, support strong due process, and don't want gun control.

1:36.5

Trump tweeted an hour later, good, great, meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the

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