Welcome back to the Lincoln Project.

I'm your host, Reed Gaillan.

Today, I'm joined by Sarah Burs, political reporter for rawstory.com.

Prior to her time at raw story, Sarah wrote for a variety of outlets including Salon,

The Nation, and Mother Jones.

She was also the digital editor at BlueNationReview.com and co-edited Future Majority.

Today, she's coming to us from the great state of Oklahoma, now down a football coach,

where the wind comes sweeping down the plane.

Sarah, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

So Sarah, let's get on to what's happening.

It has been a busy week in Washington, DC.

As it always is nowadays, we have the Omicron pandemic.

We have the Supreme Court hearing a direct challenge to Roe v Wade.

All of those things are very important.

So let's talk about something that is important, but also completely in line with where we are

as a country today.

And that is what I would call the Wonder Woman of the House Republican Conference.

I want to start with Lauren Bobert, and the video that she was caught telling a story.

Now, apocryphal means that it was made up and passed into legend.

This was just flat out of lie about entering an elevator with Representative Ilhan Omar

from Minnesota, where she made some disparaging remarks to Omar about her Muslim background.

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