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Utah Governor Spencer Cox is a longtime Trump critic who is knownnationally for his work to depolarize American politics. This week, Cox easily defeated a far-right opponent in the Republicanprimary. So too did a slate of other Utah Republi
Bob Bauer is President Joe Biden’s personal lawyer and was generalcounsel to both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. But over thelast three decades, he’s developed another specialty practice: playingthe role of his candidate’s rival d
South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn is often considered the singlemost important person in helping Joe Biden win the Democratic nominationin 2020. Now, in 2024, Clyburn is one of Biden’s six campaignco-chairs. On this episode of Deep Di
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), one of President Joe Biden’s closest foreignpolicy advisors, gives his assessment of Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s controversial upcoming address in front of Congress, thepolitics of the Hunter Biden t
POLITICO’s senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney and legal columnistAnkush Khardori debrief on what happened at the Hush Money trial, howTrump’s team may have hurt its own case, and what their best plan is towin an appeal after Thursday’
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza todiscuss his entry into the Senate GOP leadership race to succeed MitchMcConnell. They discuss why Sen. Scott is running, what Donald Trumptold him about his decision, hi
On Wednesday morning, Frank Fahrenkopf received a letter from the Bidenpresidential campaign that ruined his day. Fahrenkopf is co-chair of theCommission on Presidential Debates, which has produced 33 debates since1988, the first election ye
Fresh off fending off a hard-right coup attempt, the House speaker opensup about his strategy and his future plans for the GOP Conference.Topics in this lengthy interview include: Johnson’s victory over the GOPradicals; Israel; Ukraine; Jan
Rep. Jerry Nadler, who has represented a big piece of Manhattan since1992, is one of the longest-serving Jewish members of the House. He’s also a Columbia University alumnus: he was on campus in 1968 whenpolice cleared Hamilton Hall of anti
The biggest movie in the country right now is about a civil war — inAmerica.If you see the film “Civil War” at a theater in downtown Washington, thescenes of the Lincoln Memorial exploding and the White House beingattacked are jarring when
After months of delay, this week House Speaker Mike Johnson advanced hismuch awaited version of the Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan foreign aidpackage.Standing between that legislation and the House floor: two very powerfulcommittees. First,
Michael Cohen may be the only person standing between Donald Trump andjail. Three of Trump’s four criminal trials — the ones in Washington,Florida and Georgia — seem hopelessly stalled. But on this coming Mondayin New York, the hush money ca
Michael Cohen may be the only person standing between Donald Trump andjail. Three of Trump’s four criminal trials — the ones in Washington,Florida and Georgia — seem hopelessly stalled. But on this coming Mondayin New York, the hush money ca
On April 1, the Florida Supreme Court issued a pair of decisions onabortion that led the Biden campaign to declare that Florida, whichDemocrats have lost twice to Donald Trump, was now “winnable.”The only problem with that? Some of Florida’
A year ago today, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich wasarrested in Russia and charged with espionage, an allegation he and theJournal said was absurd. The State Department declared that Gershkovichwas “wrongfully detained,” an of
The politics of the Israel-Hamas war have become one of the mostdivisive issues in the Democratic Party. Mark Mellman, the president ofDemocratic Majority for Israel – and a longtime pollster – joins hostand Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to
TikTok, abortion, and IVF: three of the biggest issues in Americanpolitics right now and Kellyanne Conway is in the middle of all ofthem. Conway has been advising Donald Trump and Mike Pence for years andlately she’s best known for urging
First ladies are among the most powerful advisers in any White House andJill Biden is no exception. On this episode of Deep Dive, host andPlaybook co-author Ryan Lizza is joined by NYT White House correspondentKatie Rogers, who recently publ
Carlos Lozada is a columnist for The New York Times, and before that,the longtime nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post. In 2019, Lozada won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for a series ofpieces that judges described as “trenchant
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has a way of being in the middle of things,whether it’s standing up to Trump after Jan. 6 when many in her partykept quiet, helping overthrow House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, or warningRepublicans about how they were wr
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House IntelligenceCommittee, joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to discusseverything you might want to know about Russian space weapons, Section702 reforms, and the behind-the-sce
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was the Democratic lead on the muchanticipated bipartisan border legislation that was supposed to sailthrough the Senate and unlock funding for the war in Ukraine. Buteverything went sideways this week when Republ
Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) discusses the unique role sheplays as one of President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chairs who is alsoopposed to some of the key policies he is pursuing on immigration and inthe Middle East. On this epi
Mark Penn is best known for two things: his devotion to centristpolitics and his former role as the top pollster and strategist for Billand Hillary Clinton. Lately, he’s added a third: a barrage of polls thatshow a large majority of American
Joe McQuaid, the longtime publisher of The New Hampshire Union Leader –the 161-year old conservative paper that has operated like a Republicanparty boss for many decades – joins Deep Dive to tell host and Playbookco-author Ryan Lizza everyth
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