Hey everybody, welcome to the Muckrick podcast. I'm J.J. DeSaxson, and I'm here with the

workiest of working men, Nick Howlson, who is on vacation. I'm on vacation.

And still doing the show. I can't be without you.

Aw, you complete, ma'am.

This is incredible.

I have to say, it is a testament to your work ethic and your dedication to the McCrard

community.

I salute you, Nick Hausman.

Jared, there's only so many hours in a day to hang out by the pool.

There is.

There most certainly is.

And the good news is that Nick is taking time out of his vacation to talk about enjoyable

topics, as always.

We are muckrakers after all.

It would not be okay if we didn't talk about to begin with. Man, Nick, I don't know how

you're feeling about it. There's so many things to be upset about in this story slash non-story

slash story. There are so many different wrinkles in it. In the past couple of days for people who pay attention to such things, the Republican Party who, Nick, can you tell me what is the history, the recent history of the Republican Party on immigration on the border?

It's bad.

It's bad.

Bad.

Well, you know what? You can argue that from a Republican side is very indifferent and just sort of they don't care. They doesn't bother them at all of what was going on to the border. I mean in the sense that what the Trump administration was doing there didn't bother them at all.

Didn't even begin to bother them.

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