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Welcome to Counter Points, I'm Emily Dishinsky here with Ryan Grimm and there's big news

today.

Actually, it feels like there's big news every day, Ryan.

But the House Speaker, Carousel, has a new member and we're going to talk all about

Mike Johnson, who by the end of today may actually be the Speaker of the House.

So we'll bring you that information.

We are going to start with updates on the war in the Middle East.

We're going to take you through how the White House handled that situation yesterday.

We're going to take you to questions about the American presence in Lebanon and attacks

that have happened on American trips according to our government over the last couple of days.

We are going to talk about the plea deal that both Jenna Ellis struck and also news that

Mark Meadows was given immunity, former Chief of Staff at the White House.

And then we're going to do some really interesting stuff here about Bernie Sanders, John Federman

and censorship of people with kind of heterodox takes on Palestine.

So Ryan, we also have a guest here who's going to talk about one of your pet subjects and

that psychedelics.

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