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🗓️ 28 October 2019
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0:00.0 | Good Monday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned |
0:05.8 | after the show for a message from pharma. Nobody ought to be surprised that the president was booted |
0:10.4 | at Nats Park in a city where more than 90% of voters chose his opponent in 2016. What was striking, though, |
0:15.8 | was the reaction came only hours after Donald Trump proudly announced the death of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of |
0:22.5 | ISIS in a U.S. military raid. |
0:24.7 | We're not sure what the president expected to happen, but close-ups of his face during the crowd's |
0:29.1 | reaction as his name was called in the PA show a smile hardening into a slight scowl. |
0:34.4 | How will he react today? |
0:35.8 | It's a sign of the president's isolation that he only |
0:38.4 | took his staunchest Republican allies with him to the game, along with the First Lady. |
0:43.1 | Nat's Park is perhaps one of the only gathering places in town that draws Republicans and Democrats |
0:47.1 | in equal measure, but his box was all red. In the president's box, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, |
0:53.2 | David Purdue, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Cheney, Mark Meadows, Andy Biggs, Mack Thorneberry, John Rackcliffe, Kevin Brady, and Matt Gates. |
1:00.8 | That said he was under no obligation to notify Nancy Pelosi ahead of the Bogdadi raid, but telling her and other top Democrats would have bought a huge chunk of goodwill. |
1:09.7 | Pelosi, a former top Democrat on the |
1:11.5 | Intelligence Committee, has been entrusted with state secrets for decades. There's approximately |
1:16.3 | zero percent chance she would have dialed up a reporter to leak the plans. The EU has agreed on |
1:21.3 | an extension for Brexit as Boris Johnson looks to trigger a UK election. That per the F.T. |
1:29.6 | The extension brings the deadline to the end of January 2020. Katie Hill has resigned, according to John Bresdenhan, Heather Kagle, and Kyle Cheney. |
1:36.6 | This comes after allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers. |
1:41.8 | The Washington Post reports that despite the Baghdadi raids, some analysts question |
1:45.5 | the U.S. ability to prevent an ISIS resurgence. This is in the Washington Post from Karen DeYoung, |
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