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Leon Rodriguez about the Department of Homeland Security and the confirmation of Alejandra Mayorkas.

Kevin Rousse, New York Times reporter on the crazy GameStop phenomenon.

Leah, no relation litman on the important and fractured Supreme Court order involving freedom of exercise and COVID regulation.

And Michelle Goldberg, New York Times columnist discussing her op-ed on QAnon and the strange and persistent obsession on the right with Hillary Clinton.

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Welcome to Talking Feds.

Around table that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Litman.

Quite a lot is happening on the home front this week. New COVID cases continued to drop and vaccinations are proving broadly effective.

The president signed a flurry of executive orders on immigration.

The Democrats set the stage for proving the administrations preferred $1.9 trillion economic package.

Three times the amount the Republicans are willing to authorize by a bear majority with no Republican support.

And the House of Representatives voted to strip Representative Marjorie Taylor, green of her committee assignments following discovery of a year's long torrent, a vile and ludicrous invective.

And after the GOP rebuffed efforts to sanction green.

But today we turn our view outward across both oceans to take stock of the United States standing after four years of aberrant foreign policy that seemed designed to alienate our allies and cozy up to our adversaries.

As with the assault on domestic law enforcement agencies, Trump has disparaged our traditional role and rattled the world.

So Biden, who throughout his career has prided himself on his expertise in foreign policy, now faces a series of tasks to rehabilitate the United States.

A task made enormously complicated by the rise of China to near economic parity with the United States.

How deep is the damage to our international interests from the last four years and is it fully reversible?

How will Biden and Secretary of State Tony Blinken approach early tests in Russia and Myanmar?

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