October 18, 2019
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good Friday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. |
| 0:05.2 | Stay tuned after the show for a message from the Association of American Railroads. |
| 0:09.4 | Jake is in Jerusalem at the embassy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, met with Israeli Prime Minister |
| 0:14.3 | Benjamin Netanyahu at 9 a.m. local time. The meeting was at Netanyahu's residence. |
| 0:20.8 | Afterward, they held a press conference in Netanyahu's residence. Afterward, they held a press conference |
| 0:22.3 | in Netanyahu's courtyard. There was very little news, but Netanyahu was asked for response to the |
| 0:27.7 | ceasefire agreement, and he said, quote, we hope things will turn out for the best. Pompeo did not |
| 0:32.7 | take questions. There have been a lot of questions about what happens to the Kurds in the ceasefire. |
| 0:37.2 | Jake spoke to Ambassador James Jeffrey yesterday on the flight between Ankara and Tel Aviv. |
| 0:41.9 | He said, there's no doubt that the YPG wishes they could stay in these areas. |
| 0:46.5 | It is our assessment that they have no military ability to hold on to these areas, |
| 0:50.6 | and therefore we thought that a ceasefire would be much better for the eventual, |
| 1:04.0 | aside from saving lives, which is very important for President Trump and Vice President Pence, we also thought it would be much better for trying to get some control over this chaotic situation. Here are some other highlights from their conversation. Jeffrey said on Syria that it was a very convoluted situation, and the U.S. is |
| 1:12.2 | most concerned about getting our troops out of the way. The negotiations between Vice |
| 1:16.7 | President Mike Pence and Turkish President Erdogan did not include talks about whether he would |
| 1:21.4 | still visit the White House in a few weeks. The President Trump said in Texas that as far as he was |
| 1:26.0 | concerned, the trip was still on. |
| 1:28.1 | Pompeo flies to Brussels for meetings at NATO today. |
| 1:31.5 | The New York Times reports that the ceasefire amounts to a near total victory for Turkey, |
| 1:36.2 | who pays little penalties and appears to have outmaneuvered Trump. |
| 1:40.1 | Nancy Cook was down in Dallas for us for the Trump rally last night, |
| 1:43.4 | where the president said, |
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