
POLITICO Playbook Daily Briefing
Hosted by Dasha Burns and Adam Wren and Ali Bianco and Dasha and Will Steakin and Jonathan Martin and Megan Messerly · POLITICO
3.9from 1,016 ratings
- 2,386
- Episodes
- 737
- Transcribed
- 1,016
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About POLITICO Playbook Daily Briefing
POLITICO’s Dasha Burns bring her fresh insight, analysis and reporting to the stories driving the day in the nation’s capital. She will be joined by her fellow co-authors and journalists from across POLITICO — available, as always, in audio and video formats each morning.
- Publisher
- POLITICO
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Dec 2016
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
737 of 2,386 episodes have a transcript.

23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Xi gets the red carpet

22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trump scraps the GOP script

21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mike Waltz’s next moves
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Xi gets the red carpet
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But they've told me that's kind of the point, you know, there will be, you know, we'll see some deliverables on something come out of the summit. But like the point is to show that these two countries can work together, that they're, you know, yes, they're adversaries, but they're not at each other's throats. And that's kind of the point of this whole trip. So even though they're very low expectations for, you know, any sort of substantial movement on, you know, sort of these big, really thorny issues like AI, I'm also thinking about the perpetual Taiwan question. There's also, of course, the The war in Iran and the president has said that he's going to ramp up sanctions. […]
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Dasha Burns and Adam Wren and Ali Bianco and Dasha and Will Steakin and Jonathan Martin and Megan Messerly host the show. Published by POLITICO.
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