Hey, everybody. We got a really, really great one today, you know, for a change. We're going to be talking about something very close to my heart. And we're going to be talking to someone who's also very close to my heart. Sherry Lachman, who is head of Foster America.

And she was my L.A., my legislative assistant in the HELP Committee,

health, education, labor, and pensions.

She was my L.A. for education.

And we got a piece in the reform of no child left behind,

which addressed foster kids and when foster kids would get a new family. And I met a lot of

foster kids and sometimes they'd have like 10 or more families and what they

would do, they'd yank them out of their school and make them go to another school if the new

foster parents lived in another school district. And that's just ridiculous because school is one of probably the constant in their

life. You know, we record these a couple days before they drop. As I say, sometimes,

think of our show and our podcast as the daily without the resources of the New York Times.

So we actually do one a week, and I watched the first day of the hearings.

What they came away with is that when I was a kid, I thought that our government officials were like Ambassador Taylor

and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kent.

That's what I thought people in our government were like, especially in the Foreign Service,

and they were working for our country.

And that our country was working in a way to make the world a better place and help people who

were being attacked by bad people. I was just so struck that now the people in our government

are people like Devin Nunes,

the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, the Republican,

who I'm going to play some of him.

And they're like Jim Jordan, who is just in this,

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