Sept. 24, 2021: Pelosi plans to bring reconciliation to the floor next week

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

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Buckle up. That was the advice from Capitol Hill late Thursday night as news got out that Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told her committee chairs that she does, in fact, intend to bring the reconciliation bill to the floor next week, reports Heather Caygle. The question now: Is it bravura or bravado? And, The Arizona Republic scooped the results of the Maricopa County “audit” paid for by “Stop the Steal” and Donald Trump allies: It found that Trump lost the key county by a wider margin than the official election results. To put a finer point on this: The firm selected by the people promoting the election lie, Cyber Ninjas, did its own count and found that Joe Biden won. Take the POLITICO Podcast Listener Survey Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:02.9	Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rookumana Vaulin. It's Friday, and this is your Politico Playbook
0:08.3	Daily Briefing.
0:13.0	The Arizona Republic scooped the results of the Maricopa County, quote-unquote, audit, paid for
0:18.7	by Stop the Steel and Donald Trump allies.
0:21.4	It found that Trump lost Arizona's Key County of Maricopa by a wider margin than the official
0:26.3	election results. To put a finer point on this, the firm selected by the people promoting
0:30.9	the election lie, Cyber Ninjas, did its own count and found that President Joe Biden won.
0:37.0	And while we're on the topic of attempting to overturn elections,
0:40.2	Politico's Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu report that the, quote,
0:43.2	select panel investigating the January 6th insurrection is issuing subpoenas to four current
0:48.9	and former top aides to President Donald Trump, including his final chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
0:54.7	Quote, the committee issued its first subpoenas on Thursday to Meadows, former Pentagon
0:58.9	official and longtime House Intelligence Committee aide Cash Patel, former top aide White House
1:03.8	advisor Steve Bannon, and longtime Trump social media chief, Dan Scavino.
1:08.2	It marks a turning point in the investigation as lawmakers begin homing in on Trump's effort
1:14.0	to overturn the 2020 election results.
1:16.9	Now looking ahead to what's next.
1:18.5	On October 7th, the deadline for the board to give the committee the documents they've requested.
1:23.0	On October 14th, Bannon and Patel are scheduled to sit for depositions.
1:27.1	And a day later, Meadows and Scavino are scheduled to sit for depositions, and a day later, Meadows and
1:28.5	Scavino are scheduled for their own depositions.
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