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talking points memo.com. So today we have a lot of stuff to discuss and it's sort of

every which way, you know, one of those things, one of the, one of the things about the

Trump era. So many different things happening at one time.

And it is sometimes hard to keep up and hard to put it together into a,

I don't want to say a narrative exactly.

That word has gotten so overused.

And it's been sort of adopted to mean a lot of very specific things that I at least

don't want to mean when I use it. But I guess what I'm talking about is more than a narrative,

some way to put all the different pieces of information into some comprehensible whole and to see

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