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Today on the playbook podcast, Donald Trump lands back in D.C. this afternoon after almost a week in Asia, we'll assess

his trip. He met with President Xi Jinping of China last night and breaking news announced

plans to restart nuclear weapons tests in the US for the first time in 30 years. We'll unpick

that. And reality check for the president, he's now walking back to a federal

government that is in the 30th day of its shutdown. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha

Burns. It is Thursday, October 30th. How you doing, Dasha? Nice to see you. Good morning. I think

my movie tales from yesterday might be getting a little close to reality.

You're right. You started this whole thing off by talking about nuclear weapons, and now here we are about to talk loan more about nuclear weapons.

I was honestly not on my bingo card. That was not the topic I was expecting to cover this week.

At least you're well briefed, right? You're going to talk with an expert, although the Pentagon did not like that movie, I know, but nevertheless. Trump is on a plane back to DC as this podcast goes out. He met with President Xi Jinping last night. At the time of recording this in the dead of night, we don't know how that meeting went. Trump was speaking very positively about it beforehand. Asha, as we were saying,

yesterday, he's really been bigging it up, saying what a great success it's going to be. But it would probably take a few days or even weeks before we really find out what went on, right? Yeah. You know what it's like journalists like to unpick exactly what went on inside the room, and that involves a lot of text messages and a lot of private conversations. Correct. You know what my schedule is going to be full of for the coming days.

Yeah, exactly. involves a lot of text messages and a lot of private conversations. Correct. You know what my schedule's going to be full of for the coming days.

Yeah, exactly. So we'll see how that pans out. But what we do know is that Donald Trump,

well, I was going to say dropped a bomb just before he went in. And that's probably a terrible language to use. Yeah, I don't know if that's terrible or perfect verbiage.

I don't know.

And like, let's be clear about the significance of the timing here, minutes before he walks

into this high-stakes meeting with our adversary, that he's been building up, as you mentioned,

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