Hey, I'm Andrew Eger, White House correspondent for the Bullwork, co-author of our Morning

Shots newsletter with the other guy on your screen right now.

Bill Crystal, the Bullwark's editor at large.

We are the Morning Shots team.

We are trying something sort of new this morning where this is, I guess, the Morning Chaser.

We're coming to you a little bit after Morning Shots goes out this Tuesday, every Tuesday, assuming it goes well,

assuming we don't say or do anything that would destroy the company, prevent us from coming

to you next Tuesday. That's our plan for right now, and hopefully it'll be a fun thing going

forward. So, Bill, how are you doing this morning? I'm fine, Andrew. We've been in communication

for the last three hours, so this is a

continue, but I guess not everyone else has seen what we've been, all of our edits and going back

and forth on morning shots, but it's good to be with you and good to launch this morning,

Chaser. Yes, we should not expose the sausage making. People want to see us as calm and

authoritative, not running around

with our hair on fire about various edits. I disagree. I disagree. If people saw it, they'd be even

more impressed. The calmness, the authoritativeness, the judiciousness, the courtesy. It's really

quite something, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take my word on these people. Right, right right. Today we're going to start off with a story that we mentioned a little bit in the newsletter, but it was kind of breaking overnight because CBS's Stephen Colbert, who hosts the late show on that August network, came out last night with a kind of interesting story. And what he was saying was that he had

originally booked or hoped to book Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Tala Rico to appear

on the late show last night. Obviously, there is an interesting Democratic primary coming up in Texas.

Democrats see it as sort of a stretch goal if they are hoping to retake the Senate this year

and the midterms.

But the interview did not go forward as planned, or rather the interview was not able to be

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