War and peace
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:31.9 | Today on the playbook podcast, Donald Trump convenes his Board of Peace in D.C. for the first time. But everybody here is now |
| 0:40.8 | talking about war. And this afternoon, the president's off to Georgia to talk about the thing |
| 0:45.6 | Susie Wiles wants to talk about, which is affordability. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Thursday, February 19th. Megan, it's always a treat to have |
| 0:57.5 | you back. How are you? I'm fantastic. We're getting closer to March. You're getting closer to Spring, Jack. |
| 1:03.8 | That is the spirit. That is the spirit. We're all dreaming of warmer weather here, although I did get an |
| 1:08.9 | email this morning from someone in Anchorage who told me to stop complaining about the cold in D.C. And I felt shamefully put in my place at that point, swore I would never complain about the small amount of ice. At least Alaska is beautiful. You know, there's a trade-off. Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Well, D.C. is going to be beautiful this morning because Donald Trump is convening the |
| 1:29.4 | first meeting of his Board of Peace, as he calls it, here in D.C. |
| 1:33.7 | The layers of irony here, Megan, are even by this president's standards or something else. |
| 1:39.0 | He's spoken obviously very proudly about wanting to be seen as a peacemaker and his efforts |
| 1:43.4 | to solve various conflicts. |
| 1:45.3 | And this is all an extension of that. |
| 1:46.7 | This body started out life as his sort of something that was needed, essentially some sort |
| 1:51.9 | of structure to try and think about how we move forward in Gaza since the ceasefire, which he, |
| 1:56.6 | in fairness, successfully brokered. |
| 1:59.0 | But it's morphed into something else, and he now wants it to be |
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