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The Playbook Podcast

May 30, 2017

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Corey Lewandowski spotted around the White House, Vice President Mike Pence will hit the road for the GOP and more in today's Playbook Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

0:06.9

Sometimes you don't have to look that hard to understand what's going on in the White House, and yesterday was one of those days.

0:12.4

Corey Lewandowski was spotted at Pete's coffee around the corner from the White House with a briefcase in hand.

0:17.6

Lewandowski is part of a crew of former Trump aides that are back in the good grace of the president. There's even Buzz Hill rejoin the Trump administration. The big story of the day, the New York Times, Matt Rosenberg, Mark Mazetti, and Maggie Haberman, dig into a meeting between Jared Kushner and Sergei Gorkoff, a Russian banker. The meeting is shrouded in mystery now that it's been reported Kushner was seeking a private back channel to the Kremlin. Phil Rucker and Ashley Parker of the Washington

0:41.7

Post get CIA director Mike Pompeo and director of national intelligence, Dan coached on the

0:46.8

record for a piece about how Trump consumes, or better yet, does not consume intelligence. Pompeo says

0:52.9

the president likes killer graphics. Well, who doesn't?

0:55.8

Ashley also has a fascinating look at Trump's interpersonal management skills and talks about

1:00.0

his snubs and slights of White House staffers. He calls Reince Prebis Reincey and Paul Ryan a Boy Scout.

1:06.4

He even rib Mike Pence for having small rally crowds and said even Ivanka and Eric Trump have better

1:11.8

crowds than the VP. On A-16 of the New York Times today, Jeremy Peters talks about an emerging

1:16.5

GOP election strategy, narrowcasting Trump instead of broadcasting him. Alex Eisenstadt scoops

1:22.4

that Mike Pence is going to hit the road this summer on behalf of the GOP. This is an important

1:26.7

moment for Pence as Trump's numbers are sinking.

1:29.2

John Howman is becoming a national affairs analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

1:33.4

A fun bite from New York City this morning.

1:35.5

The Daily News and New York Post have the exact same front page headline.

1:39.9

DUI of the Tiger.

1:41.8

Happy birthday to Steve Israel, who's 59 today and gleefully out of Congress.

1:46.2

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