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

podcast. We open the show with a rundown of news on the JCPA, arrogant Hollywood wokesters,

Biden's likely re-election bid, Sam Bankman Freed's missing billions, and much more in a pretty

varied monologue. But then we have something really special for you.

Senator Tom Cotton, the Senate GOP's leader on All Matters, National Security, and Foreign Policy,

just happened to be joining the show.

And he gives a snap reaction to the breaking news that occurred during the broadcast

that the USA has swapped WMBA pothead Brittany Griner for International Arms Merchant

Victor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death.

This is the blockbuster trade of the year for you sports fans, and the senator gives

his analysis.

I think this one is going to age about as well as the Vlade Divac for Kobe Bryant trade,

but I guess it remains to be seen.

Stunning stuff. And we get a breaking news analysis from maybe the most qualified person

on the right to deliver it. Then we get his retrospective on the 2022 midterm elections before

we discuss his important work blocking the awful JCPA from being included

in the National Defense Authorization Act.

He takes a little bit of a victory lap there and gives a good take as well.

All of that in the broadcast. Let's get into it. I'll start with some more JCPA updates.

And part of this is you send a signal to anyone from Team Cocaine Mitch or team Amy Klobuchar or any of the people who felt the team Ken Buck, any of the people thought was really important to pass this and were cool with it being in the National Defense Authorization Act.

A bailout for establishment media journalists is something that would make my life much more difficult and then had the indecency to tell me that it'd be good for me, which is what we

saw yesterday from the otherwise very, very kind man in gregg stuby who was kind of suggesting that

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