I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, and this is the Breitbart News Daily podcast.

We begin today's broadcast with the government actually getting one right, the broken clock

thing, I guess.

It appears by busting a secret Chinese police force operating in the USA.

Yes, that is real, and we kind of knew it was happening, but still surprising to see

government actually do

something about it. Rarely does that happen. It really is pretty rare where they do something

may be good. So we'll keep an eye on it to see if there's more to the store than meets the eye.

But you'll hear all the news on the subject matter at the top. Before we get into the Republicans'

24 messaging, the conversation has largely shifted nationally to abortion and guns, which are

not slam dunk issues in purple states, electorally speaking. And Ronda Santis is all of a sudden

seeming to have lost his fastball, at least temporarily,

and Republicans are trying to draw attention to violent crime.

We'll check in to see on how they're doing.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens are still committing violent crime across the country, and we bring

that up as well in the opening of the broadcast.

Our guest today is Adam Brandon.

He's the president of Freedom Works. We don't tend to do a lot of hand-wringing on the broadcast. Our guest today is Adam Brandon. He's the president of Freedom

Works. We don't tend to do a lot of hand-wringing on the broadcast about the national debt,

but the debt ceiling debate is a foot in D.C. And so it is time for one of our periodic

check-ins on waste and abuse in our federal government. We get his thoughts on what Republicans are angling for

in this negotiation and if there is a chance they're going to get any of it. And of course, we ask the

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