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2024's race for the presidency is less than 30 days away.

That brings us to the analysis of Brooks and Marcus.

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Ruth Marcus, columnist for the Washington Post.

Jonathan Kapart is away.

It's great to see you both.

Hi.

Let's start with the news late today

and I just want to get your reaction that Rudy Giuliani

has been ordered to pay Georgia election workers

Shay Moss and Ruby Freeman,

almost $150 million for defamation.

David, what do you make of that?

It's deserved.

I mean, he ripped their lives to shreds with the tweet and with all the lies that went on. And so I think these big

penalties are meant to send a message and they are sending a message. You can't lie

and destroy people's lives when you're in a position of authority. The larger story

is whatever happened to

Rode Giuliani. You know when he was mayor I covered him I traveled around the city

with him. He was smart he was calm he had well he had quirks he was glad

a tutorial but he was not the guy we see now and it's one of the most remarkable

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