Today on the Playbook podcast, four more weeks.

That's how long the White House believes it can withstand an oil price spike before the pressure starts to bear.

President Trump will have prices on his mind when he heads to Cincinnati for the fifth leg of his 2026 affordability tour. And last night

in Georgia, how did Trump's candidate do in Marjorie Taylor Green's old district? Hello, I'm Jack

Blanchard. And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Wednesday, March 11th. Great to have you, Megan. How

you doing? I'm doing well. I mean, so much better now that it's sunshiny and in the 80 degrees. This is the weather I live for as a native Californian. Everyone in D.C. can talk about nothing but the fact it's finally warmed up. Terrific conversation is the same conversation. Let's talk about your excellent story, which has gone live on the Politico website just in the last few minutes

and is highly topical and relevant to the whole conversation about the war in Iran and gas prices.

You've got the latest thinking from inside the White House about just how much pain they can

take on this and the fluctuations we're seeing in the gas price. Go on. Talk us through what

you've learned. Exactly. I sent the last few days calling folks in and around the White House and the primary

question of my mind being, what are the pain points here when it comes to the Iran war? Like,

what is it going to take to move the needle? When would the admin start to walk back some of what

we've seen? Right. We've heard the president,

we've heard press secretary Caroline Levitt, other top administration officials say this figure

of four to six weeks, right? And so I was talking with some folks for this particular story

and what they told me and this is relevant because of what we saw happen over the weekend

when oil prices

spike to a four-year high up to about $120 a barrel, the White House did not flinch at that.

And so I was calling around and asking people, like, why is that? We know that the White House

was concerned about that. They took a lot of steps on Monday to try to allay some of the market

fears, but they didn't blink. They didn't flinch when it came to their posture on the war.

And multiple people close to the White House, the reason they said that is, is because the

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