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First, before anything else, I want to thank everybody who came to our event down in Washington,

D.C. one week ago. We had a great time. If you weren't there,

we have the, you know, the podcast, the recorded podcast version of it up. I assume many of you

who weren't there will have listened to it by now. It was, I thought it went great. I think we both

thought it went great. We just had a great time meeting with all of you.

So in a new case, just wanted to thank you for that. We really had a great time. And now we have

the big news to talk about and digest, as you may have heard, Donald Trump's second presidency began two days ago.

And he has, you know, it's funny, I'm not even sure I would say he's hit the ground running precisely.

I mean, I don't just mean that in the sense of this man doesn't run.

I mean, I'm keeping it to metaphors, right?

But there is this, and this is one of the things

that we're going to talk about today, there is this kind of weird balance. One has to

try to strike in a case like this, because a lot of things are happening. There are a few presidential powers that

are very immediate and real and total. He pardoned everybody from January 6th. I think there's,

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