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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The Conversation returns Sept. 12!

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The Conversation with Dasha Burns is back! In Season 1, Burns sat down with some of the most powerful players in Washington to get their perspectives on what’s really going on inside The White House. Join The Conversation again as Burns continues to explore how President Trump and his team are fundamentally reshaping the country, and how Democrats are tackling this new era of American politics. Full episodes will now air every Friday, starting Sept. 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, it's Politico's Dasha Burns, and I'm here with some breaking news.

0:05.1

The conversation is back.

0:08.0

In season one, I talked to some of the most powerful players in Washington.

0:12.2

What more at this point is the administration doing to apply more pressure on Russia?

0:16.6

Our sense of it is that the Russians are going to try to achieve in the battlefield what they've demanded in the negotiating table.

0:22.5

Getting their perspectives on what's really going on inside this White House.

0:26.9

As you see, the Republican Party start to look at things like overturning save-sex marriage, that right.

0:32.7

Let me challenge you. The Republican Party is not doing that.

0:35.6

Parts of the party are and beyond. There is a problem

0:38.8

where people stay out way too long in both parties. I don't think it's limited to Democrats. Look at the age of Donald Trump. No, of course, but what if Democrats could be the party that solved that problem? I wanted to dig into the real stories behind the headlines and soundbites. These people don't care about words, they don't care about bathroom policy, they want attention. They want to raise

0:56.4

money online, right? They want to raise the the headlines and sound bites. These people don't care about words. They don't care about bathroom policy.

0:54.8

They want attention.

0:55.9

They want to raise money online, right?

0:57.7

They want to raise their profile.

0:59.3

And I got to have a little bit of fun along the way.

1:02.5

Did you guys consider doing a Washington's top jaw lines ranking for this?

1:08.2

Oh my God.

1:08.8

No, it's brilliant.

1:10.1

It's brilliant.

1:14.2

But there's still so much more to the story. Join me again as I continue to explore how President Trump and his team are fundamentally

1:20.6

reshaping the country and the world. From Political Playbook, this is the conversation with Dasha

1:27.4

Burns.

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