Mike Allen on What He Thinks Was Behind Rahm Emanuel's Anger Over Cuba Question

Clever diversion?

There’s been a lot of breaking-the-fourth-wall action in the Politico Playbook of late, the most recent of which occurred just this morning in response to an incident featuring Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, during a live Illinois Playbook Breakfast in Chicago on Wednesday.

Allen devoted the entire opening of Playbook to explain what exactly went down before and after Allen asked Emanuel about plans to take his children to Cuba for the holidays.

Here’s the moment in question, in which Emanuel gets “heated,” “flips” or per Allen, “blows his stack,” angry at Allen for disclosing what Emanuel believed to be private information.

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