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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For “Playbook Deep Dive,” Ryan Lizza talks with Judge J. Michael Luttig about his advice to Pence then, what needs to be done to rewrite the Elect...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 31:08
It’s an event that Russians, Ukrainians and the rest of the world have been thinking about, but one that many people didn’t think would actually ha...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 22:48
More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has escalated his military offensive. Ukrainian President V...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 45:07
Even as President Joe Biden has emphasized that the U.S. and NATO do not want to engage with Russia militarily, Congress has pushed the administrat...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 36:08
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) pioneered the playbook that helped Democrats flip the House in 2018. Less than four years later, she announced her r...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 35:10
Doug Sosnik is a man whose deep dive political memos are considered essential reading in Washington. He's best known as a former senior adviser to ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 27:12
Congressman Ro Khanna is one of the most influential progressives inside the house democratic caucus. He represents California’s 17th district – a ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 33:15
This week on Playbook Deep Dive, POLITICO’s Peter Canellos talks with our own Josh Gerstein, who broke this week’s massive news that the Supreme Co...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 01:05:34
For this week’s episode of Playbook Deep Dive, we sat down with Jennifer Ellis at her cattle ranch in eastern Idaho to understand how the state’s G...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 29:50
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
