Sep. 23, 2022: What's behind the latest Manchin drama

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

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It’s perhaps the wonkiest, most in-the-weeds debate happening on Capitol Hill: The battle over Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) permitting reform bill. It’s also the biggest hold-up in the quest to keep the government from shutting down next week. The measure (aka the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022) would basically shorten the process to get permits for energy projects. Its inclusion in the must-pass continuing resolution is the result of a deal struck between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden that secured the West Virginian’s support for the reconciliation bill. For Manchin and those Dem leaders, it’s the ultimate compromise: Legislation that would benefit new fossil fuel projects (including specifically approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline planned for West Virginia) and speed up the creation of new clean energy projects. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:02.4	Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Ragum Winoval and it's Thursday. Big news when it comes to Trump in D.C.
0:08.0	And big news when it comes to Trump in New York. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:16.1	A couple big stories in Trump world today. In a Wednesday night ruling, a three-judge
0:20.8	federal appeals panel sided with the Department of Justice. Blocking what Politico's
0:25.9	Calcini and Josh Gerstein write are aspects of Judge Eileen Cannon's ruling that delayed a
0:31.7	criminal investigation into highly sensitive documents seized from former President Donald Trump's
0:37.2	Mar-Lago estate.
0:38.3	Two of the three judges were Trump appointees, their decision was unanimous, and it was unsparing,
0:44.0	from the ruling itself.
0:45.5	Plaintiffs suggest that he may have declassified these documents when he was president.
0:50.0	But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified.
0:59.3	In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring.
1:03.9	Meanwhile, here's what Trump had to say on Fox News's Hannity on Wednesday night. If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it.
1:10.7	Because you're sending it to Mar-a-alaga or to wherever you're sending it.
1:16.1	New York State Attorney General Tish James filed suit against Trump and his three oldest children,
1:22.0	alleging a years-long campaign of deception and large-scale fraud and seeking about $250 million, and allegedly,
1:29.7	illegal profits, nettled from the scheme.
1:32.2	As Josh and Kyle Wright, there was one break for Trump.
1:35.2	It was only a civil suit and not criminal.
1:37.5	However, James is seeking draconian penalties, a five-year ban on Trump buying commercial
1:42.5	real estate in New York or applying for loans,
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