Hello, everybody, and welcome to this substack live.

Look who's with me.

I'm excited.

Journalist extraordinaire, April Ryan, the longest serving black White House correspondent.

April, I think you said it's been 29 years and still having to deal with what's his name.

And of course, an essential contributor over at the contrarian also on substack.

So check that out. April, it is so good to see you.

It is an honor to be with you. You just don't know. I mean, I understand family dynamics,

but to go against a family member like that, who happens to be the president of the United States

twice and worse this time,

I tip my to you.

I mean, I've had the external stuff, but you've got internal and external.

That's crazy.

It's crazy.

But on the other hand, you've had to deal with him more directly than I have.

And I don't know how you've been able to hang in there because he has demonstrated his utter contempt for your profession and for you on occasion.

So I tip my hat to you, quite frankly, for being able to hang in there and do the essentially important work you do every day.

So let me say this.

And you're in the mental health field.

It was a struggle, and I'm not joking about that.

This time around, I had to really think about how it was going to,

because I said, I'm not going to let him move me and remove me from something that my

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