Oh, and Leahy made some news about JOE BIDEN and 2024 when we asked him whether he wanted Biden, his longtime friend and Senate colleague - they complete each other’s sentences, he joked - to run for reelection. This is a must-listen for political junkies and history buffs.
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On Monday, we sat down for a couple of hours with the senator in his president pro tempore office - the position makes him third in line of presidential succession - and downloaded the best of his war stories from 48 years in the Senate. Leahy dishes on the deal HUGO BLACK told him he cut with EARL WARREN, that time he didn’t want to take a call from BILL CLINTON because Leahy was at a STING concert, his infamous encounter on the Senate floor with DICK CHENEY, who told him to go f-k himself, his role as a secret emissary between RAUL CASTRO and the White House, how he enjoyed teasing BARACK OBAMA for his love of the spotlight, and he nerds out on two of his great loves, Batman and The Grateful Dead. In between, you meet dozens of politicians, Supreme Court justices, presidents, world leaders, musicians and Hollywood celebrities. 6 after they fled the mob that stormed the Capitol. PATRICK LEAHY -On Tuesday, Leahy, who is retiring this year after representing Vermont in the Senate since 1975, released “The Road Taken,” an engrossing memoir that covers his long career - from his politically fraught vote against the Vietnam War to his account of rallying his fellow senators back into the chamber on Jan. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) pauses at the Capitol on Monday, June 7, 2021. Listen to our chat with Victoria on today’s Daily Briefing
“One bit of awkwardness that might make his task harder: Powell last year at the same conference predicted that price spikes were likely to be temporary. In a speech this morning at the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Powell will have to convince markets that he means business, while also acknowledging that the Fed doesn’t want to go further than it has to in bringing the hammer down on the economy. POWELL'S INFLATION GHOSTS - Victoria Guida emails us from Jackson Hole, Wyo.: “Federal Reserve Chair JEROME POWELL will face a room of economists and a world of observers as he aims to send a message that the central bank will not falter in its fight to bring down inflation. “The judge appeared to approve all of the deletions the Justice Department proposed, some of which are intended to shield investigators’ sources and methods for collecting evidence as part of their criminal probe into the ‘highly classified’ documents the FBI discovered at Mar-a-Lago.” Read Reinhart’s order to unseal
Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein : Judge BRUCE REINHART “emphasized that prosecutors had shown ‘good cause’ to redact elements of the affidavit that would reveal ‘the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties,’ ‘the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods’ and ‘grand jury information.’
HEADS UP - The deadline for the Justice Department to unseal a redacted version of the affidavit used to secure the FBI warrant for the Mar-a-Lago search is noon today (absent a last-minute appeal).