May 7, 2025: Washington reaps the whirlwind

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This morning, Vice President JD Vance will speak at a meeting of world leaders convened in Washington by the Munich Security Conference. The speech is amid a backdrop of rising tensions between India and Pakistan, a Russia-Ukraine war that is dragging on, and seemingly endless tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Back home, officials are bracing both for Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell’s decision on whether to cut interest rates — and President Donald Trump’s reaction to the announcement. Playbook managing editor and author Jack Blanchard and POLITICO White House bureau chief Dasha Burns unpack what they’re watching.

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0:00.0	presented by BP.
0:05.8	Hello, good morning, everyone.
0:07.2	This is Playbooks Managing Editor and author Jack Blanchard.
0:10.1	It is Wednesday, May the 7th, and I am here once again with the White House Bureau Chief of Politico, Dasha Burns, to talk about everything that's driving the day today.
0:18.3	How are you, Dasha?
0:19.4	I'm good.
0:20.1	Happy Hump Day, everybody.
0:21.6	Happy hump day. It is kind of a bleak hump day, if I'm honest. The number of global conflicts
0:28.2	around the world is increasing and that is very much dominating the new cycle this morning.
0:33.2	The attacks by India on Pakistan very much in the headlines this morning. And of course, this comes
0:38.2	at a moment when we can see the Israeli conflict in Gaza escalating again or looking like
0:43.8	it's about to. The Russia-Ukraine conflict, which was supposed to have finished on day one
0:48.5	of Donald Trump's presidency, is very much not finished and very much still ongoing. And there
0:52.9	appears to be no sign of a major
0:54.8	breakthrough there either, Dascher. This latest thing, obviously deeply worrying, given that these are two
0:59.7	nuclear-armed states, as we all know. Will this be crisis time inside the White House, do you think?
1:05.3	Does Donald Trump pay close attention to these kinds of conflicts as they come up?
1:09.8	Well, the people around him certainly do, and he has made it very clear that he wants to be
1:16.1	the kind of president that presides over a more peaceful world.
1:19.5	That is not what is happening for him right now.
1:22.0	And it's a tough sort of start to the second 100 days for his administration of seeing like multiple really hot zones
1:31.1	right now at the same time as his national security team, his foreign policy team has also seen
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