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Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,

featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors of power in America,

sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

Following a convulsive head-snapping, headline-making January,

the torrent of news abated not at all in this first week of

February, even putting aside the story that has captured the attention of much of the nation

and has those of us who are personal friends with Savannah Guthrie praying as hard as we ever have

before for her beloved and shockingly abducted mother Nancy. And for Savannah, her two siblings, and the rest of her family.

There have been three other giant stories consuming much of our attention

over here at Impolitic HQ,

the continuing saga of Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis,

which continues to brutalize residents of MSP,

despite the drawdown of 700 federal agents announced by White House

Border Tsar Tom Homan.

The fallout from the Justice Department's release of more than 3 million pages of documents,

2,000 videos and 180,000 images from the Jeffrey Epstein files, and Donald Trump's

suggestion that the midterm elections should be nationalized in 15

...