March 9, 2018
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 9 March 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by United Health Group. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm Jake Sherman. Here's a playbook scoop that might irk Trump. Senator Elizabeth Warren is going after Jared's company. |
| 0:12.9 | The Massachusetts Democrat, along with Elijah Cummings, Tom Carper, and Gary Peters, sent letters to Apollo and City Group asking about loans to Kushner's company just after |
| 0:22.0 | Jared joined the White House. |
| 0:23.6 | The letter asks for a whole load of stuff, including the dates of loans, were offered, |
| 0:27.3 | conditions of the loans, and descriptions of the process by which Kushner company got the loans. |
| 0:32.1 | It asks for all meetings between the two firms and Kushner and various details about those meetings. |
| 0:36.8 | They request all documents |
| 0:38.0 | from the loan process and whether any of the loan was secured by foreign financing. |
| 0:41.7 | The big news last night obviously was a breakthrough with North Korea. President Trump is meeting |
| 0:47.5 | with Kim Jong-un by May. The Washington Post reports that North Korea has committed to stopping |
| 0:52.2 | nuclear and missile testing during joint military drills between South Korea and the U.S. next month. |
| 0:58.1 | The Financial Times has the analysis piece, reporting that what looks like a win-win situation |
| 1:04.2 | on the surface is actually a deal with each side having a ton of self-interest. |
| 1:09.2 | For the U.S., Trump gets to demonstrate headway on a big |
| 1:13.3 | foreign policy initiative. For North Korea, Kim gets domestic prestige and the international spotlight, |
| 1:20.7 | and of course for South Korea, which helped broker the deal, the country reaps successful diplomacy, |
| 1:26.8 | and the benefits of a reduced tension on the |
| 1:29.4 | Korean peninsula. Maggie Haberman at the New York Times tweeted, Trump is reaching out more directly |
| 1:33.7 | to reporters, a la popping into briefing room working phones is likely in the post-hicks era. Buckle up. |
| 1:40.1 | Meanwhile, Nancy Cook and Ben White report that Gary Cohn is trying to help Trump pick his successor. |
| 1:45.0 | Cohn's favorite choice, Shihira Knight, is a former Hill staffer and ex-lobist. |
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