This means that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.

This is your life now. This is our election now. This is us. This is our country.

It's real.

Hi and I'm here

Welcome to the 45th.

Robia here and I'm here with my colleague Susan Simpson. Hey Susan. Hey Robin, and this time I am literally here with you.

Yes, we are sitting in front of each other for better or worse.

This is a rare joint appearance in-person podcast. We are not even anywhere close to where we actually live, but we are up in Michigan and we're here

for some other work and so we're doing this together.

Having said that, number one, I have no idea what the sound quality is going to be like because we're not necessarily I'm doing it's good we're good all right well I hope we sound good

I'm a charge right now we got this okay.

Ranya just told me the Trump tweeted that Barr needed to arrest someone.

What was it?

Yeah, he recently re-tweeted that why doesn't Barr,

like, you know, Barr needs to arrest him

but make an arrest already.

I think that's what it was.

And like that hasn't even crossed my radar while driving around.

Yeah. Millions of miles of Michigan countryside. It was a picture bar with a caption for the love of God arrest somebody, meaning Biden of course. But well, yeah, but here's thing Susan. You will be happy to know you haven't missed a whole lot that's been highly newsworthy because I guess maybe the bar's really been raised with this administration it has to be real like

we're so used to some really crazy stories every single week it doesn't feel

like still crazy news week but anyway let's start off where a real start off which is COVID

Front on COVID. We are now at 8.32 million cases in the US and

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