# Todd Blanche faces the Senate Judiciary Committee Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549/todd-blanche-faces-the-senate-judiciary-committee Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549/todd-blanche-faces-the-senate-judiciary-committee.md Podcast: [The Playbook Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549) Published: 2026-07-15T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL6432377412.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL6432377412.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-playbook-podcast-53549/episodes/todd-blanche-faces-the-senate-judiciary-committee Duration seconds: 942 ## Resource Senate Republicans face a series of high-stakes decisions that rival last year's One Big Beautiful Bill. At the top of today’s agenda — acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We’ll give you a preview of his testimony. Meanwhile President Trump dropped hints about tomorrow's national address, where he’s expected to return to a familiar message on the SAVE America Act. Plus, the latest on the war with no end in sight as Trump ramps up aggression towards Iran.  For more news and analysis, subscribe to the Playbook newsletter: politico.com/playbook  ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-playbook-podcast-53549/episodes/todd-blanche-faces-the-senate-judiciary-committee/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549/todd-blanche-faces-the-senate-judiciary-committee.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.