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The Playbook Podcast

September 3, 2019

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden defends mixing up details about war and his involvement in Afghanistan, the latest on Hurricane Dorian and more in today's Audio Briefing.

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing sponsored by

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the Boeing Company. And I'm Jake Sherman. Joe Biden was asked again about this terrific Washington

0:10.5

Post scoop from last week that had him mixing up several key details about war and his involvement in

0:15.3

Afghanistan. This time it was in an interview with NPR's Asma Khalid and Iowa Public Radio's

0:20.8

Clay Masters.

0:21.9

Here's what Biden said. I was making a point about a generation. This has nothing to do with

0:26.4

the judgment of whether or not you send troops to war, the judgment of whether you bring someone

0:30.5

home, the judgment of whether you decide on a health care policy. You understand that.

0:35.1

When pressed by Khalid on the importance of the details, Biden responded that details are irrelevant in decision making.

0:41.5

The New York Times is up with a news analysis piece with the headline, President Trump, Weatherman.

0:47.3

Dorian updates in at least 122 tweets.

0:50.8

The story looks at how Trump canceled his trip to Poland and instead monitored the storm from a golf cart at his Virginia golf club.

0:58.0

Stam Stein made an excellent point yesterday on Twitter.

1:01.0

He wrote,

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You would think the opposition party would have a field day with a president canceling a trip to commemorate World War II so he could monitor a hurricane,

1:10.0

only to then be spotted playing

1:12.0

golf two days in a row at his personal club. But I can't even recall seeing one Dem take a whack.

1:18.7

Instead, the Washington Post has a piece reporting the congressional Democrats plan to launch an

1:22.3

inquiry into Trump's alleged role to silence two women who claim they had affairs with him.

1:26.7

Need to impeach the Tom

1:27.8

Steyerling group that is pushing for proceedings to remove the president is running ads against

1:32.2

Connor Lamb, a Democrat who holds an R-plus-3 House seat. The AP has the latest on Dorian, which is

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