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What do we have, Crystal?

Indeed, we do.

Saugger and Ryan with some new bombshell reporting about Venezuela.

You definitely want to stay tuned for that one.

A lot of moving pieces there and fantastic reporting on your part and Ryan's part.

We also have updates with regard to the shutdown.

Trump partying away at a great Gatsby themed party while food stamp benefits run dry.

A judge is intervening and saying that they do have to tap emergency funds to pay out those

benefits. So that remains in limbo as we speak this morning. We got a bunch of stuff going on with

Cash Patel over at the FBI under fire once again,

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