Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

We're truly thankful for all of our listeners, subscribers.

Those people who come up to me in the street and say,

we love your podcast, we learn so much please continue to

suggest guests to us topics you want us to cover. Today is a little bit nuanced

because we'll be interviewing Brookings senior fellow and congressional expert.

There is a such thing as a congressional expert, we dig into it.

Dr. Molly Reynolds.

And Motley's going to talk about everything that we need to know about the

filibuster reconciliation in all things Congress, you know,

that nuanced stuff. So when you're around a water cooler at work, talking with your friends or you

want to sound smart at dinner, you at least know what the hell you're talking about.

But before I get to Molly, I wanted to talk about something that happened that many people

haven't really paid attention to, and that's President Biden's executive order on guns that he issued last week.

In case you missed it, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order on guns this past week.

It was likely in response to the recent surge of mass shootings that we have now seen

return with a vengeance as the country has opened back up.

The executive order has five parts.

One, it will require the Justice Department to specifically

regulate so-called ghost guns. These do-or-yourself kits, so-to-gun shows and gun shops

that allow people to make their own guns at home without

serial numbers. Yes, it's like IKEA. You go, you get you a kit and you build yourself a

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