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All right, welcome back to counter points, happy Wednesday, I'm Emily Doshinsky, joined

by my co-host, Ryan Grimm, who is still remote for the time being, Ryan, how are you?

I'm doing good, I'll be back pretty soon, looking forward to seeing you and everybody in

the studio, but also been nice to be away, got to say.

Oh yeah, I can't imagine, it's a good time to be away from the swamp, that's for sure.

Speaking of all of the craziness and the swamp, we're going to be tackling all kinds

of good stuff today that would be starting with Georgia, the fallout from the latest

Trump indictment.

We have a lot to break down in terms of how Trump has responded, how his fellow Republican

candidates have responded.

We're going to talk about Chris Christie in a recent poll in New Hampshire taking the

edge over Ron DeSantis, he's actually leading Ron DeSantis, we're going to talk about

that in one poll, the likelihood of a government shutdown increases by the day, we'll probably

see some real threats of that going into the fall, Kevin McCarthy has new things to talk

about on that.

We're going to talk about the cycle of tragedy in Ecuador, which is an important place

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