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The Playbook Podcast

May 17, 2019

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Immigration details from the White House, the latest on Iran 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. Stay tuned

0:05.8

after the show for a message from charter communications. And I'm Jake Sherman, two White House

0:10.8

mysteries. There was a lot of griping on Capitol Hill that the president announced his immigration

0:15.7

plan and Republicans did not have any paper whatsoever to explain what he was proposing.

0:21.6

Months of work allegedly by Jared Kushner, and there was no fact sheet to accompany the much

0:26.0

Ballyhooed announcement.

0:27.4

Just after 8 p.m. last night, the White House sent out fact sheets, which we've included in

0:31.6

Playbook, which explains what the president is proposing on immigration.

0:35.5

It'll be interesting to see how many members issue letters

0:37.9

or statements of support for the plan now that there's an explanation about what Kushner has spent

0:42.5

months working on. Here's Mitch McConnell's take on the plan. We are a nation of immigrants and we must

0:48.9

preserve that rich part of who we are, but we are a nation of laws. There is a crisis at our southern border, and I hope

0:55.6

Democrats get serious soon about working with us to secure our borders and restore the rule of law

1:01.0

to our nation, which includes reforming out-of-date legal authorities. I look forward to reviewing

1:06.5

the president's proposal. Not spotted? Anything resembling support from McConnell, the only Republican

1:13.6

with any power on Capitol Hill. And here's an honest question we don't have the answer to.

1:19.6

Why put something like this out if you're going to have next to no support even from your own party

1:24.9

upon release? Why not save yourself the embarrassment?

1:28.7

Mystery number two. Will there be any Republican takers for the infrastructure meeting?

1:34.1

We keep hearing Republicans might go to the Trump meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer

1:38.6

on immigration next Wednesday. So far, not one GOP or has committed. If Republicans go,

1:45.5

it's likely to be less productive,

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