I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, December 27th.

Between Omicron and everything else, you deserve a little good news, a little inspiring news.

So I'll start with the fact that our guest about to join us,

Politico White House Bureau Chief and MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire,

Jonathan's latest tweet as of a half hour before we came on,

was about a sixth grader, an 11-year-old named Davion Johnson, saving the lives of two

different people in two separate incidents on the same day. So we'll talk about that a little bit

with Jonathan. And all year, there's still all that stuff going on with Biden and Mansion and

Omicron and everything else. As we welcome Politico

White House Bureau Chief and MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, he hosts the 5 AM program called Way Too Early

and then hangs around and causes trouble on Morning Joe. Hi, Jonathan, happy everything and

thanks for coming on with us. We really appreciate some time on this holiday week.

Welcome back to WNYC.

It does seem that causing trouble on Morning, Joe, is my primary occupation right now,

but happy everything to you.

It is always a delight to be here.

I'm glad to be with you today.

And you're a White House correspondent.

Why did you tweet about that 11-year-old in Oklahoma?

I was really touched by it.

It's a really sweet story, and you're right.

We need a little bit of good news.

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