Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and welcome to this week's roundtable.

Our look back at the big news of the week with three of our of Washington's top political reporters.

While this week's news did impact Washington,

most of it didn't actually originate in Washington, but instead, first in Buffalo,

where a lone gunman killed 10 African Americans in a supermarket, a mass murder he says,

was inspired by the Great Replacement Theory,

which is advocated today by many leading Republicans.

Second, in five states where Republican voters went to the polls to choose between those

Republican candidates who had Donald Trump's endorsement and those who did not how they do.

Third, in Western Europe, where Sweden and Finland responded to Vladimir Putin's campaign

against expansion of NATO by announcing their intention to join NATO and thus expand it even further.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden's off on his first visit as president to Southeast Asia and more big primaries are scheduled for next week. Boy, a lot to catch up on,

so let's jump right in with today's panel. Philip Bump, national correspondent for the Washington Post,

Ginger Gibson, Deputy Washington, editor for NBC News Digital and John Bennett, editor-in-large

at CQ roll call. Philip, Ginger, John, welcome. Good to see you. Good morning. Good to be here.

So let's start with a primary and overall Republican primaries this week. Philip, what do the results say about today's Republican Party?

I mean, we keep getting all these tea leaves and none of us seem to be very good at reading them.

Because they tend to be pretty complicated, right?

So we had Pennsylvania, for example, where Doug Mastriano wins the gubernatorial primary for the GOP.

He's hard right.

He is, you know, he actively tried to overturn the election results in favor of Donald Trump.

He was at the Capitol on January 6th, and he won't handle it.

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