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featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors of power in America,

sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and our culture.

Even by the halacious standards of the Trump 2.0 era, it has been a hell of a week in these United States of America, especially, tragically, horrifically, appallingly in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

There is really no risk of overstating the impact that the execution style killing of Alex Pretty coming hard on the

heels of the point blank shooting of Renee Good by clearly hostile untrained hair trigger customs

and border patrol agents in the former case and by an equally out of control ice agent in the

latter case no overstating the impact they have had on the collective conscience and the prevailing

cultural climate in our country. And even perhaps, perhaps, perhaps on the prevailing political

dynamics in Washington, D.C., from the marbled hallways of Capitol Hill to the inner sanctum

of the White House. To help us navigate this treacherous terrain,

the ground that is shifting rapidly beneath our feet, I am pleased as punch to welcome back to the show.

My dear friend Claire McCaskill, the pride and joy of Rala, Missouri, former Jackson County

legislator and prosecutor, former Missouri State auditor, and former two-term U.S. Senator from the show-me state,

a woman who delights the viewers of MS now with a steady stream of on-air analysis that's at once

sophisticated, savvy, and reliably down to earth, and whose political sagacity is only rivaled

by her unmatched cake-baking prowess. The latter of which, sadly, isn't possible to sample on a podcast, but the former of which

we've got a heaping helping of right here on this all new episode of Inpolitic with John

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