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Today on the Playbook podcast, he finally did it. Donald Trump makes his move against Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, in D.C., he's demolishing half the White House. And what we're watching on Capitol Hill on day 23, count them of the government shutdown. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. Hey, and I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, October 23rd. Nice to see you back, Dasha. We'll talk about the White House in a minute, but it must be quite a noisy place for you to work over there at the moment. Not the most peaceful environment, though it hardly ever is, I have to say. It was, exactly. But now we have an actual devilish job going on.

We'll get into that in a minute.

Let's talk about something much more serious, which is the war in Ukraine.

And we saw big movement, actually from Donald Trump last night.

It feels like we've been coming towards this moment for quite a while.

We've had quite a few conversations about Donald Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin. It's been two weeks for many months now. Two weeks from now, I'll talk about the sanctions, and here we are. Exactly. But I was listening to Secretary of State Marker Rubio last night, speaking on the tarmac, he's on his way to the Middle East, about this. And he said, you know, Trump said something would happen if Russia didn't move,

well, this is something happening. And so for people that went following this, I'm sure you

already know, the Treasury announced major new sanctions on Russia last night. It's the first

big move against Russia in terms of sanctions since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Russia's two biggest energy companies, both getting very severe US sanctions for the first time. And the idea, Dajah, it's attacking the Russian economy. And that is actually where the president thinks this war might be ended if Vladimir Putin. He's squeezing them where it hurts. And energy is exactly it. Yeah. Are you surprised that it's come to this? I mean, Trump's sort of dilly-dallied on this, if I can put it that way for a long time.

He talks tough, and then he has a call with Putin and then their best friends again. Are you surprised we've actually got to this point? I'm surprised that he seems to be at a point of exasperation with both of these leaders. We talked about the tense meeting behind closed doors that Trump and Zelensky had. And

Zelensky didn't come out of that with what he wanted. And there was a lot of concern that he

was going to go cozy back up to Putin again. Well, that hasn't happened. In fact, the opposite has

happened. And what a lot of folks on the Hill have been saying for a long time is we want to see Trump put the

screws to the Russian president and he's finally doing that. And he has talked a lot about how sick

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