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The Playbook Podcast

September 18, 2017

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A New York Times reporter catches two trump lawyers talking about Mueller, the latest on Alabama's Senate race and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by UC Davis.

0:06.6

And I'm Jake Sherman. Donald Trump is in New York this week for the UN General Assembly.

0:10.8

He'll meet today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron.

0:15.4

He's scheduled to have dinner with Latin American leaders.

0:18.2

Peter Baker and Ken Vogel of the New York Times have a big story this morning on the front page.

0:22.4

Ken, our former colleague, overheard two Trump lawyers debating how much information they should turn

0:27.0

over to the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller. They were chatting loudly about this outside of

0:31.6

BLT stake, which is in the middle of downtown Washington, just a few doors down from the New York Times

0:36.8

Washington Bureau.

0:40.1

Thai Cobb and White House counsel Don McGahn have clashed.

0:44.2

Cobb wants to release more information to Mueller to make the probe go away.

0:48.1

McGahn supports cooperation, but is also worried about sending a precedent that could weaken the White House after the Trump presidency.

0:50.2

Here's the one thing you should be watching this week.

0:52.6

An Obamacare repeal is back on the table.

0:55.4

Senate Republicans are looking to try and repeal it one last time.

0:58.8

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to gauge the support early this week at a private meeting, Burgess Everett and Josh Dossy report.

1:05.6

The bill would scale back the federal government's role in health care and instead provide block grants to states.

1:10.6

Republicans have already sent the bill to the CBO to get scored.

1:13.7

But it's not a sure thing.

1:15.2

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul has already said he is a no.

1:18.4

Burgess and Sung-min Kim break down why McConnell is so invested in Luther Strange remaining as the Republican senator from Alabama.

1:24.5

The two right that if Roy Moore wins, it would put McConnell in an even more

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