Playbook Deep Dive
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Welcome to Playbook Deep Dive, the stories behind the power. From Congress and the White House to bar stools and back rooms, POLITICO's top reporters and Playbook authors bring you the most compelling and confounding stories that explain what’s really going on in Washington.
Welcome to Playbook Deep Dive, the stories behind the power. From Congress and the White House to bar stools and back rooms, POLITICO's top reporters and Playbook authors bring you the most compelling and confounding stories that explain what’s really going on in Washington.
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Dan Conston is the president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Rep. Kevin McCarthy with the singular mission of maki...
- Added: Oct 31, 2022
- Length: 58:56
Robert Draper's "Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind" focuses exclusively on the GOP during the crucial 18-month peri...
- Added: Oct 31, 2022
- Length: 47:53
Scott Bland is POLITICO’s national politics editor and leading all of POLITICO’s 2022 midterm coverage. To do it, he has a team of about 15 reporte...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2022
- Length: 32:51
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Matthews has a political resume similar to a lot of conservatives her age. At Kent State, she joined the College Republicans and made her fir...
- Added: Oct 31, 2022
- Length: 53:56
Last Sunday, Italians voted for the most right-wing government since Benito Mussolini. The controversial politician leading the winning coalition, ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 29:48
It’s hard to imagine a political event that was covered more intensively in real time than Trump’s two impeachments. But only now, 18 months after ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 01:05:45
UCLA political scientists Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch and Vanderbilt’s John Sides argue that political party identity has become increasing...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 01:02:52
Kara Swisher has hosted the annual Code Conference for the last twenty years. Recently she announced that this was her final year organizing and ru...
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 48:35
On Tuesday, Leahy, who is retiring this year after representing Vermont in the Senate since 1975, released “The Road Taken,” an engrossing memoir t...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 36:05
The White House suddenly has a lot to brag about. And the president’s aides, led by chief of staff Ron Klain, are reaching deep into the 20th centu...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 25:05
This week the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 using the process known as budget reconciliation. The upside? No filibuster is allo...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 51:44
The biggest remaining obstacle for the Democrats is now Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who will continue to host Democratic and Repub...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 42:43
Here’s something about Washington, D.C. that even a lot of people who live here don’t know: Psychedelic mushrooms are basically legal. In 2020 vote...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 34:35
Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 40:25
George Gascón was elected district attorney of Los Angeles County in November 2020 with 54% of the vote.
“I won handsomely,” he reminisced Wednes...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 42:39
If documentary filmmaker Alex Holder’s memory is accurate, Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin just minutes after the news broke that...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 30:32
J. Michael Luttig is the former federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence that the VP had no authority to reject electors o...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 38:00
This week in the GOP primary for South Dakota’s at-large district, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) defeated a challenger from his right who claimed he ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 44:40
There’s at least a few people in the Democratic establishment who have hope for the midterms. They’re the redistricting experts, people like Kelly ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 26:24
Trump-backed candidates have lost recently in Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Idaho. The biggest caveat about how the lessons of other states...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 34:29
