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Good morning, everybody. Happy Wednesday. See, I can't even, it doesn't... You said thwensday. It doesn't roll off the tongue, you know? It doesn't work for my, for my mouth. It hasn't been conditioned for Wednesday. But happy Wednesday. This is the burden that you've given. This is the burden. This is the burden. All right. Should we do the traditional counterpoint law. We're going to mix up who does the introductions. No, you're much better at Oh, I'm not. That's crystal's job. I hate doing this. That's true. But you are really, because you're loud. Because you're loud. And when you're loud, you sound confident and it makes people excited. Well, that's what my haters and my, uh, and all my friends have been saying about me since the day I was born. So, okay, all right.

Just being loud doesn't make you right, Sager. Wait, is my wife in the room? Where is you? Okay, Doha. Doha. We're going to start with the Doha attack, shall we? This is, obviously, we had breaking news yesterday, literally in the middle of our segment with Jeremy Scahill. we could not have a better person on the show to break all of that down with absolutely major consequential attack by Israel on Hamas leaders who are in Doha, the chief negotiators actually for the ceasefire.

We're going to break down everything that we know both about the attack and some of the geopolitical

fallout, the White House signaling themselves away from the attack, although not really doing anything about it.

Pretty feckless, if you ask me. We're going to talk about Epstein. So we did give some review of the

Epstein files that were released by the oversight committee, but Emily and I are going to go through,

I picked, I read the entire book. I had to take a shower afterwards.

Yeah. And it's, it's so disgusting. But I picked out 16, 17 images. The two of us can go through. We've gone through the Trump letter. But there's so much more in the book, some of the richest, most powerful people, including the current U.S. U.K. ambassador to the United States, Lord Mendelso. Lord Mendelsohn involved with

Epst. I mean, you can't make this stuff up, can you? And there's so much more behind the scenes.

Just to show open secret in his own network about his own predilections, I guess, shall we say.

Emily, you are going to break down, shutdown politics for me. It's fascinating. So Emily is

much more of a scholar,

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