Hey guys, I'm managing out of the Bullwork. I'm here in Austin, Texas, where I just finished up a panel discussion with Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

We touched on a lot of ground, actually, everything from what's going on with the Jeffrey Epstein files to whether he anticipates that Donald Trump will actually leave office in 2028 to what Democrats need to do to fight back against Trump in the current moment. Also asked him why he was up in New Hampshire. He was there a couple days ago, kind of a conspicuous travel destination. If you ask me, he's got an explanation for that. Don't worry. Anyways, check it out. It's a really robust conversation. A lot of ground we touched on. A lot of news was made. And as always, subscribe to the feet.

Thank you all so much for coming here.

I really appreciate it.

It's an honor to be with my home state senator, Chris Murphy.

I'm a native of Connecticut.

Haven't lived there in a bit.

But I just want to say before we start this program, there is a way to submit questions,

which we're going to be doing at the end. And I have the website written down, because I'm not good

at memorizing things. You should go to texistribune.org slash ask. And there you go,

or use that little gadget over there.

We want to have a good, lively conversation about the state of the world, which is great.

But before we get to that, a little bit of bio.

I looked this up 10 minutes ago.

You first ran for office when you were 25 years old.

Is that correct?

Correct.

Yeah, I was 24 when I was elected to the Southington, Connecticut planning and zoning commission. Uh, and then I realized

if I wanted any future in politics, I had to get the hell off the planning and zoning commission.

Uh, and then, yes, I was elected to the state legislature a year later. You were elected into

the U.S. House of Representatives during 2006, Wave, and then you went into the Senate in 2012.

I first met you sometime in between then, I believe, and I don't think you've changed, but you've evolved in a way.

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