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Today on the Playbook podcast, panic in the White House over the rising price of gas.

Could the war be to blame? Trump to host the

Miami soccer team on 305 day. And the Texas fallout continues with the GOP runoff looking

messier than ever. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, March 5th.

Dasha, it's day six of the war in Iran, and we can definitively call it a war now, because

the president himself calls it a war. You've seen these Republicans sort of falling over

themselves to try and insist it's not a war. It's a military operation or it's something or other,

but Trump says it's a war, so I think we can safely say it's a war. And it's expanding. And it's expanding. We saw the first possible attack or attempted attack on a

NATO country yesterday. We'll see how that develops because that would obviously have huge

implications if something like that was to happen. We're seeing expanding in lots of different

countries. But we are going to talk about the domestic implications. That's the job of this podcast. And we've spent so much time talking about the affordability issue,

Dasha, and concerns maybe among some people in the White House, if not the president, about

his lack of focus on that and what the war might do to that. Well, gas prices have gone up more than 20 cents a gallon in the past week. They are now

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