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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The Conversation with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns is a fresh take on the traditional Sunday show format, going beyond conventional wisdom and short sound bites to broaden the political conversation. Each week, Dasha will sit down with one of the most compelling – and sometimes unexpected – power players in Washington and beyond for a real discussion about how they are shaping the current moment.

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00:38:26

Nancy Pelosi's Democratic survival guide

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/08/23

Democratic kingmaker Nancy Pelosi has come to be pegged as the chiefforce behind President Joe Biden’s decision to step down from his reelection campaign — a claim that she refuses to dignify much. While Pelosi no longer wields the Speaker’s gavel, its absence hasn’t done much to stifle her power within the party. She’s not only the first female Speaker of the House, but also one of the most talented political tacticians of her generation. POLITICO’s senior political columnist and politics

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00:34:26

Bernie Sanders’ tough love for the Harris campaign

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/08/21

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joins Playbook co-author and Deep Divehost Ryan Lizza to give his candid thoughts on Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, including whether he thinks Joe Biden should have stepped aside in the first place; how Democrats can win back young people, minorities, and progressives; as well as where he agrees with Harris’s policies, and where he thinks she needs to lean in his direction to win. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Bernie Sanders is the senior

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00:49:16

The new fundamentals of the 2024 campaign

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/08/16

With the Democratic National Convention just days away, Doug Sosnik, alongtime Dem strategist best known for being a top adviser to Bill Clinton, joins the show to help unpack the new fundamentals of the 2024 presidential campaign. Sosnik and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza discuss: Why the gender gap is getting larger — and how it could impact the election in ways that have not yet been fully appreciated; why JD Vance might influence the election more than Tim Walz; two metrics can tell you the

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00:45:09

Anita Dunn on why Joe Biden really dropped out

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/08/09

Anita Dunn left her position as a senior advisor to president Joe Bidenthis week, marking the end of an era for the White House. She was a key architect of his 2020 presidential campaign and one of his closest advisors throughout her tenure. On this episode of Deep Dive, Dunn joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan LIzza to talk about the extraordinary series of events that lead to Biden dropping out of the presidential race, including: the pivotal decision to call for a June debate with Trump;

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00:34:41

Inside the veepstakes with Gov. Roy Cooper

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/08/02

When President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and the Democraticparty rallied around Kamala Harris as his replacement, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper was widely considered to be a top choice to serve as Harris’s running mate. But Cooper did something unusual: he told the Harris team he didn’t want to be considered as her running mate. On this episode of Deep Dive, host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza talks to Cooper about why he took himself out of contention and how some weird local

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00:48:57

Kamala Harris’s campaign didn’t just fall out of a...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/07/26

Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels and POLITICO politics bureau chiefJonathan Martin join host Ryan Lizza to tackle questions about Vice President Kamala Harris’s new role at the top of the Democratic ticket, including: What really caused Joe Biden to end his quest for a second term? How did Kamala Harris lock up the nomination so fast? And what is really going on inside her campaign right now? How have the issues, swing states, and demographics that will decide the 2024 election changed? What

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00:27:34

How Trump unity and Biden fumbles are helping the...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/07/19

Congressman Richard Hudson is chairman of the National RepublicanCampaign Committee, which is to say, he’s in charge of delivering a majority in November for Speaker Mike Johnson and possibly President Donald Trump. In this episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Hudson discusses how the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the possibility of Joe Biden leaving the Democratic ticket are influencing his strategy for House Republicans this November. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for

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00:33:37

Why Brian Kemp thinks that “grace” and “tone” are...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/07/17

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp joins for a bonus episode of Playbook DeepDive. In a live interview from the Republican National Convention, Kemp — a swing state governor with a famously conflicted relationship with Trump — opines on how Saturday’s assassination attempt will change both Trump and Biden’s election strategy; his thoughts on J.D. Vance, Trump's running mate; what his advice to Trump is for his convention speech and everything after; and whether or not he is courting a position

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00:36:43

How to win an open convention — if Joe Biden drops out

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/07/12

Elaine Kamarck is a longtime member of the DNC’s rules committee, ascholar at Brookings, a former advisor to top Democrats such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Walter Mondale; and author of “Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates.” On this episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels asks Kamarck all of your questions about how the Democratic Party would choose a new nominee should Joe Biden step aside. Topics

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00:34:57

Who’s afraid of Donald Trump? Not this rising star...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/06/28

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 Republican primary. So too did a slate of other Utah Republicans. While national Republicans continue to move in Trump’s direction, in Utah, the Romney faction of the GOP is still holding its own. On this episode of Deep Dive, Cox joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to discuss Utah politics, as well as Cox’s

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00:52:38

The man Democrats call to prepare for debate night

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/06/21

Bob Bauer is President Joe Biden’s personal lawyer and was generalcounsel to both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. But over the last three decades, he’s developed another specialty practice: playing the role of his candidate’s rival during debate prep. Bauer has helped Democratic candidates prepare for debates by playing the likes of Bernie Sanders, Al Gore, and Donald Trump. He’s also been involved with efforts to reform the process and production of presidential debates themselves. So

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00:29:40

Jim Clyburn’s advice to Joe Biden on the election and...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/06/14

South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn is often considered the singlemost important person in helping Joe Biden win the Democratic nomination in 2020. Now, in 2024, Clyburn is one of Biden’s six campaign co-chairs. On this episode of Deep Dive, Clyburn joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to discuss: Biden’s weakness with Black and Latino voters; the rebellion on the left over Israel’s war in Gaza; the continued Democratic carping about the Biden campaign’s messaging; Biden’s

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00:37:03

Chris Coons has thoughts on Gaza, the border and...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/06/07

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), one of President Joe Biden’s closest foreignpolicy advisors, gives his assessment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial upcoming address in front of Congress, the politics of the Hunter Biden trial, why Coons thinks the president’s executive order on asylum is hollow, how our allies around the world are bracing themselves for the coming election, what would happen if China invaded Taiwan in a Trump versus a Biden administration, and his

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00:37:17

Trump’s Guilty. Here’s what he shouldn’t do on appeal.

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/05/31

POLITICO’s senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney and legal columnistAnkush Khardori debrief on what happened at the Hush Money trial, how Trump’s team may have hurt its own case, and what their best plan is to win an appeal after Thursday’s massive guilty verdict. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Kyle Cheney is a senior legal affairs reporter for POLITICO. Ankush Khardori is a columnist and senior writer for POLITICO Magazine. Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio. Alex

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00:35:59

Inside Rick Scott’s quest to be the Senate’s Florida man

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/05/24

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza todiscuss his entry into the Senate GOP leadership race to succeed Mitch McConnell. They discuss why Sen. Scott is running, what Donald Trump told him about his decision, his relationship with key Republicans such as McConnell and Susie Wiles, his policy agenda on foreign aid, abortion, entitlements, and Israel if he’s elected leader, Trump’s running mate choices, and the importance of having a purpose in life. Ryan Lizza is a

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01:04:03

“Political malpractice”: the Debate Commission chief...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/05/17

On Wednesday morning, Frank Fahrenkopf received a letter from the Biden presidential campaign that ruined his day. Fahrenkopf is co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has produced 33 debates since 1988, the first election year it was in business. He was planning on four more this year: three with Biden and Trump as well as the quadrennial vice presidential debate. But the Biden campaign told Fahrenkopf that the president would not be participating in any of them. Instead, the

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00:45:50

Mike Johnson told us what he really thinks about Joe...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/05/10

Fresh off fending off a hard-right coup attempt, the House speaker opens up about his strategy and his future plans for the GOP Conference. Topics in this lengthy interview include: Johnson’s victory over the GOP radicals; Israel; Ukraine; January 6th; the Trump trials; abortion; and his relationships with key Washington leaders, such as Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries, Kevin McCarthy and, of course, Donald Trump. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Rachael Bade is a Playbook co-author for

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00:46:28

Rep. Jerry Nadler opposed the House antisemitism...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/05/03

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 when police cleared Hamilton Hall of anti-Vietnam war protesters. Nadler is a close observer of the Middle East and the politics of Israel in the U.S. And he’s the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, where he’s long seen himself as a champion of civil liberties. All of this

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00:35:52

“The truth as we know it is over.” “Civil War” star...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/04/26

The biggest movie in the country right now is about a civil war — in America. If you see the film “Civil War” at a theater in downtown Washington, the scenes of the Lincoln Memorial exploding and the White House being attacked are jarring when you exit into the D.C. air. The movie is writer and director Alex Garland’s very in-your-face attempt to imagine the unimaginable in America — an authoritarian leader in the White House, intractable political differences being resolved through violence and

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00:50:16

Rep. Tom Cole’s cigar diplomacy to secure Ukraine,...

The Conversation with Dasha Burns ·

2024/04/19

After months of delay, this week House Speaker Mike Johnson advanced hismuch awaited version of the Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan foreign aid package. Standing between that legislation and the House floor: two very powerful committees. First, the House Appropriations Committee, which controls about a third of federal spending. And second, the Rules Committee, which controls access to the House floor, and which has become a problem for GOP leaders in this Congress. Johnson needed to pick the lock

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