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today at Claude.a.ai slash playbook. Today on the Playbook podcast, White House messaging

Wars, J.D. Vance breaks his silence on Trump's war in the Middle East and says it's

nothing like Iraq. President Trump hosts one of Europe's top leaders in the White House today,

and this time the press are invited in. And it's voting day in the hottest primaries of

2026. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, March 3rd.

Dasha, it's day four of the war in Iran, obviously dominating all the news again today.

Absolutely.

The thing I'm interested to talk about is the sort of messaging blitz we saw from the White House all through yesterday.

We talked about how we'd heard very, very little over the weekend, apart from these pre-recorded interviews from Donald Trump. Well, that's changing. Didn't it change? On Monday, we heard from Trump in the White House. We saw J.D. Vance on Fox News last night. We'll talk about him in just a minute. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth and Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. We saw Marco Rubio doing on-camera Q&A on the Hill. All the top people came out and went ahead with the messaging blitz. Why do you think we saw this very obvious sudden change of strategy compared to the very controlled, just put out some videos and nothing else over the weekend? Well, look, first of all, I'm hearing that we're going to see a lot more of that this week.

I'm being told by the White House to expect basically daily briefings from the Pentagon, from Hegset and from Kane,

that the president is going to be on camera a whole lot more the rest of the week that they're putting out

their officials across primetime, not just overnight, but we will see more of that across the

week. I think you saw Caroline Levitt, the press secretary, responding to some conservative voices,

conservative influencers on X laying out the case that the administration is making. I think that's it,

right? They are making the case now. They have

the sort of bullet points of the why, of the how, of what they are saying they are trying to

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