Will Steakin

I'm Dasha Burns.

And I'm Will Steakin.

It's Thursday, October 15th.

Okay, Will, so we have some, some pretty striking new reporting here about President Trump and White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, who's been a longtime advisor to the president, his longest serving chief of staff.

I'm Dasha Burns.

And I'm Will Steakin.

It's Thursday, October 8th.

All right, well, so this week, there's been a lot of talk about this reporting from the New York Times that Trump advisors Chris LaCivita and James Blair were both paid hundreds of thousands of dollars consulting for a Russia-aligned government in the Balkans.

I'm Dasha Burns.

And I'm Will Steakin.

It's Wednesday, October 7th.

Will, I have such distinct memories of Trump the 2024 campaign trail and watching Latino voters become Trump curious and then become like real Trump voters.

There, there are so many stories.

Like, you saw Will Steakin at Playbook had that leaked audio of Ken Paxton sort of expressing his frustration and his lack of control over the race.

Like, the people leaking this shit are people close to him, and I think it's entirely reasonable that this is, like, the, like, Republican campaign deep state's way of signaling, like, "Please stop sending troops to Verdun.

Like, we are just incinerating money, like diluting ourselves that we can still win this race."

I'm Dasha Burns.

And I'm Will Steakin.

It's Monday, October 5th.

So, I want to kick off with that audio that we obtained from a small Ken Paxton fundraising event last month.

Final thing I'll say about the Mamdani meeting with Trump.

So let's go to the political playbook reporter, Will Steakin, who says Trump's joint presser with Mamdani was not originally planned, source familiar with playbook says.

Or tell us

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