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Hello, good morning. I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, May 15th, 51525. Don't you love five?

I didn't know you were so into math. Sorry, math. Your British is showing.

This is the playbook podcast.

Here are the things that are driving the day-to-day, Dasha, things that we are following.

It's supposed to be a big day of peace talks in Istanbul today, but Vladimir Putin is a no-show.

Neither is another big figure in all of this, our president, President Trump.

Indeed, your own president will not be there either. If Putin's not going, then he's not going.

He's staying in the Middle East and carrying on with his sort of royal tour of all these grand palaces,

which he seems to be enjoying so much. Here in D.C., not so much peace negotiations as tax

negotiations.

Republicans on the Hill are doing yet another round on their massive reconciliation bill.

The deadline is getting close on that dasher.

Mike Johnson, the Speaker, wants to vote on the floor of the House next week.

So it's getting tight and sort of decision time.

And I was amazed and amused to see yesterday one of the committees that we've been doing

and throwing about this. Their debate went on for 26 hours. And there were reporters in the room

for 26 hours covering that debate. Have you ever done anything like that? God bless them.

You know what? I have not had that kind of marathon. I mean, you know, the troubling nights from me are staying up for those state of the unions. But other than that, I mean, that finishes at like 10 p.m. Yeah, no, no, that's a remarkable feat for everyone involved, truly. Yeah, well done, colleagues on the hill. And well done, Mike Johnson, if he can get this done. I mean, such a hard conference he's got there to try and square off on all the different tax and spend issues that they're juggling. He's running out of time to do it, but it feels like he might just get there. But, actually, we've got two things we have to talk about this morning. The big Supreme Court hearing arguments about birthright citizenship here at home. And then separately, peace talks abroad. Let's start with the

Supreme Court. This is Donald Trump's attempt to abolish birthright citizenship as it currently

stands. And just as importantly, or maybe bigger in a sense, the aspect of this they're going to be

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