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Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,

featuring lively, in-depth, and sometimes ever so slightly profane conversations.

Today is a special example of that.

We've got a lot of profanity here, and it's not just me with the people people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America weaving the warp and weft of our politics and

culture.

Week two of Trump 2.0, just as eventful as week one, from Trump's aborted federal spending freeze,

his buyout offer by email to some two million federal employees, confirmation hearings for three of his

most controversial cabinet appointments, his suggestion that illegal immigrants swept up in the

ice raids going on across the country should be hacked up and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay,

and his grotesque efforts to politicize the horrific mid-air tragedy

over Washington National Airport that left at least 67 people dead while bodies were still being

pulled out of the Potomac. To talk through all of this and where Democrats go from here we have with us

today, Brian Schatz, former Congressman, former Lieutenant Governor, former State Party Chair,

and currently the senior United States Senator from the land of Luwows, the province of Pukishels,

and the homeland of Don Ho, the great and glorious state of Hawaii.

Shats, who went to the same high school as Barack Obama and Michelle Wee, is a plain-spoken Democrat whose intelligence sense of humor and level head have made him a popular figure among his colleagues and earned him a place on the Senate Democratic Caucus's leadership team as Deputy Conference Secretary and Chief Deputy Whip.

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