Hey, everyone, welcome to from the kitchen table.

I'm your host, Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast, but also my partner

in life, Rachel Campos Duffy. That's right. I'm so happy to be back because, you know, I was sick last week. And you had. You were so sick. You're not talking into the microphone. I know. I was so sick last week. And you filled in, you had Jason Chaffetz fill in for me. Jason and Sean went solo. Rachel was gone. It was not the 24-hour flu. It was like four days of... Yeah, I was sick. Mama's sick. Well, I was sick. And so then it's good to be back. And then you just, you and Jason just talk shop. It was like... Old school back in the Congress. Old reminiscing about your days back in the... room drinking coffee and just philosophizing. There's a hot dog machine in there too. There is a hot dog machine. All right. Well, I'm so excited to be here because as you know, this has been, you know, the last few weeks has been a massive new cycle. There's so much going on in the country. But of course, there's also this war in Ukraine that many people thought would never happen. There were lots of

speculation about whether Russia, you know, was just amassing all those troops to scare us and

get something out of us. But then he actually did invade. And we have not stopped talking

about it. And ever since this is, this whole thing started brewing, I've been wanting to talk to, I've been wanting to talk to Rick Rennell. And we finally got him. He's the

former acting director of national intelligence. The one person, probably other than Zelensky and Putin himself that I want to talk to. Oh, maybe Angl and Merkel and

Merkel, but I'd actually rather watch, I'd rather watch Rick talk to

Angola.

So, Rick, well, welcome to the podcast again.

Sean and Rachel, you know what?

I feel like I'm a regular now.

You are.

We're going to make you regular.

So Zelensky just talked to Congress.

This war doesn't look like it's going as well as the Russians thought.

Zelensky's desperate.

He needs the weapons.

Just give us your lowdown of what's going on.

Give us the basis point.

He came in with a mission, right?

He wanted to inspire America, number one, to enforce a no-flies on, which it doesn't

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