Hi, this is Dana Bray on i65 heading north out of Nashville. My husband and I are moving from Tennessee to Connecticut

Which will be the fifth state we've lived in in our first 10 years of marriage and our cat is not happy about another move

I was gonna ask was there a cat also along for the ride are the two adorable pit bull mixes

We adopted here in Tennessee and our beloved street dog from Syria

This podcast was recorded at 208 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17th

Things may have changed by the time you hear it and hopefully will all be settling into our new house in Connecticut. Here's the show

Oh my god so many cats so many creatures. That's too many pets for me how many are with you that is too many pets for me

I think actually my airways are closing just listening to it

Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House

Susan Davis I cover Congress and I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent

This week CPAC the conservative political action conference one of the largest gatherings of conservatives in the US will hold one of its signature conferences in another country

In Budapest Hungary

And before we get into why an American conservative organization is gathering in Hungary. Let's just start with basics

Mara you've been working on a story about this

Obviously you followed CPAC for years

But tell us what it is and what this conference is all about

Well CPAC is the conservative political action conference sometimes they call them some's conservative political action coalition

They're sponsored by the American conservative union and they're a gathering of conservative grassroots activists over the years

Sometimes they've been on the fringe of the Republican Party on the far right fringe

But I think more and more they are coming to represent

What you could call the base of the Republican Party the Trumpist America first base of the party

This is not the first time they've held a meeting overseas

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