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The Playbook Podcast

Playbook Year in Review: Trump and His Cabinet

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In our fifth year-end episode, Jake, Anna and Zach discuss the president’s relationship with his cabinet, how his public feuds played out and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Playbook Audio Briefing is sponsored by Google Search in 2017.

0:06.0

Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

0:09.0

I'm here with Jake Sherman and Zach Montalero and today we're talking Trump's cabinet.

0:14.0

There's been no shortage of drama with Trump and his cabinet. Sometimes he's sparring with them.

0:19.0

Sometimes his cabinet is sparring with members of the

0:21.6

media, particularly there's been a lot of drama over member travel. This has been a little

0:28.6

different than a lot of first year administrations, right? You rarely see the kind of infighting

0:35.1

in public that we have seen among Trump and his cabinet

0:38.5

secretaries, whether that's Rex Tillerson at the State Department or some of the others in

0:43.1

terms of where they want to go with this administration.

0:46.1

Well, let's talk about a few basic points. Number one, the administration has confirmed

0:50.4

to many outlets on background or on other sort of anonymous ways that they are looking

0:58.3

to push out their secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. The Treasury's...

1:02.3

Rexit, as I like to call it. Brexit, right. They've said they've, the Treasury Secretary

1:08.9

who has been criticized for being an out-of-touch elite who is very rich,

1:13.9

Hollywood Wall Street ties, has taken a photo with a sheet of dollar bills with his actress

1:20.1

wife at the Treasury in the middle of the tax reform debate where Republicans are getting criticized

1:25.0

for giving it all the way to the rich. So there's just some typical bizarre behavior that goes along.

1:31.3

And I understand it to completely get it because this White House is not experienced in politics.

1:37.1

It would be like me going to New York and getting into the real estate business.

1:41.3

I have no idea what I would be doing.

1:43.2

In a lot of cases,

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