Hello, with Politico magazine correspondent Tim Alberta. Hi Tim.

Hello Scott.

So what we're gonna do this week,

a little different than usual.

The full panel is scattered across the country

celebrating, celebrating Thanksgiving with friends and family,

but we wanted to sit down with Tim and dig in a little bit to a recent story, a big story that he did for Political magazine.

And it was a profile of former House Speaker John Boehner who is in some ways loving life

in retirement looking back at his former colleagues in Congress and everything else in Washington and kind of chuckling

to himself a little bit as the world burns.

And also, tinged with not an insignificant amount of regret, it seems like. And Tim spent a lot

of time with the former speaker and came out with his incredible story, Boehner Unchained, which completely accurately describes the multitude of quotes within.

But Tim, tell us a little bit about what's going on inside John Boehner's head right now?

I think he is a much more complicated individual than anyone necessarily recognized or gave

him credit for during his time on the hill. This is after all the kind of gruff chain

smoking Midwesterner who would cuss at everybody and was known to be kind of the

cramudgeon in chief on Capitol Hill, but who would break down in tears at the mere mention of school children or veterans.

Making sure that these kids have a shot at the American Dream.

My God.

This is a guy who is liberated now that he is gone from Congress. He can smoke his two

packs a day and he can mow his lawn and he can be left alone by the outside world.

And yes, I think there is certainly some amount of, you know,

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