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Back to SearchMarch 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 fr…
3 years, 11 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. B…
3 years, 11 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 t…
3 years, 11 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…
3 years, 11 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 moment…
4 years 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…
4 years ago
Feb. 22, 2022: Today’s Russia conundrum: What’s an ‘invasion’?
Episode 1301
It happened. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops — er, “peacekeepers,” as Moscow’s propaganda machine is calling them — into sepa…
4 years ago
Feb. 18, 2022: McCarthy endorses Cheney Challenger
Episode 1300
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy officially backed Harriet Hageman, the primary challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Olivia Beavers reports. W…
4 years ago
Feb. 17, 2022: Operation ‘Stop Greitens’ goes awry
Episode 1299
Former President Donald Trump met with Alabama GOP Senate candidate Katie Britt at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, two sources familiar told Playbook. The for…
4 years ago
Feb. 16, 2022: Exclusive poll: Answers to the midterm’s 2 big questions
Episode 1298
We have some news in our latest POLITICO-Morning Consult poll that we can share with you this morning.
The results get to the heart of two big questi…
4 years ago