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March 9, 2022: Harris steps in the middle of a NATO standoff

Episode 1312

At 7:30 a.m., VP Kamala Harris departs for Warsaw, Poland, where she will be thrust into the middle of the first major standoff between NATO countries since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

With toug…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

March 8, 2022: ‘Limited’ no-fly zone gains steam among foreign policy elite

Episode 1311

This morning we have a pair of significant Ukraine-related exclusives.

The first is a letter signed by more than two dozen of the nation’s top foreign policy minds calling for a partial no-fly zone ov…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

March 7, 2022: Russia escalates brutality, Congress steps up response

Episode 1310

“Russia answers resistance with firepower,” notes the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, who is in Kyiv now and covered the conflicts in Chechnya and Syria. “Rather than send in men to fight from house to house and…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

March 4, 2022: Can a wider war be prevented?

Episode 1309

“Ukrainian firefighters on Friday extinguished a blaze at Europe’s biggest nuclear plant that was ignited by a Russian attack and no radiation was released, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said, as Russ…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

March 3, 2022: How gas prices could crush Biden and the Democrats

Episode 1308

President Joe Biden's conservative critics — from Fox News to Capitol Hill Republicans — have slammed the administration for exempting Russian oil from the raft of financial sanctions aimed at the Kr…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

March 2, 2022: 3 takeaways from Biden’s big night

Episode 1307

Here were the three key takeaways and revealing moments that stuck with Team Playbook from President Joe Biden's first State of the Union speech.

1. Biden's cost-free confrontation with Russia — On th…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

March 1, 2022: Biden’s SOTU blues

Episode 1306

At 9 p.m., President Joe Biden will deliver the type of State of the Union address he never wanted to give. Biden and his advisers had hoped to use this moment to reboot his stalled domestic agenda. …

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Feb. 28, 2022: A presidency transformed

Episode 1305

Foreign policy crises have a way of reshuffling the priorities of a president. Joe Biden's standoff with Putin happened to come along just when Biden had lost some urgency in confronting his three bi…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Feb. 24, 2022: War in Europe

Episode 1303

Just before 6 a.m. Moscow time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a televised speech that his forces were entering Ukraine. Within moments, distant explosions were heard by reporters stat…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Feb. 23, 2022: GOP pans Biden’s first taste of sanctions

Episode 1302

The Russian sanctions announced by President Joe Biden on Tuesday made clear the White House is still grappling with the same question he mused about at his Jan. 19 news conference: What is the appro…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago