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At the biggest topics in U.S. News and politics, happy, happy Monday. How was your weekend, Sammy?

You know, it was a good weekend, I was pretty. Every time I asked, it's funny, because I was like,

there's always like a conditional. This one was okay. I was definitely more social

weekend. I had made a lot of plans. And I got a new, I got a hydroponic garden,

I think it was livered, and I hung out with everyone's, you know, our favorite newscaster,

Emily in your phone. Oh, awesome. Oh, she in the city? She was, so we had a nice little dinner.

And we talked about the stuff. Good, I want to hear what you guys thought.

Last time I had a phone chat with her recently too. It's very cathartic to talk to other women

who do this very precise, like niche that we do at this very chaotic time, especially at a time.

And I'm sure you talked about this, where it's like, who's in charge here? Who are we following?

Is it us? Do we just have to take the lead? Are we just going to do it? I think we might.

Yes, totally. I mean, I think like, I, what's something that I do really appreciate is that,

you know, other than the sort of, you know, conventional news spaces, there have been

obviously like new, new Z outlets popping up, and I almost am hesitant to call it news,

because I don't want to like burden people with the standards of like fact check it. Well,

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