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Okay, here's our episode

Welcome to talking feds around table that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a

Dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman two weeks

A fortnight a figure with an endpoint that shifts back and forth like an oasis in a desert

Between close enough to see but an eternity to arrive at two weeks until we know

Hopefully whether this three plus year scourge of corruption, malice, vulgarity, dishonesty and no

Nothingness is passing away. The week was dominated by the confirmation hearings for judge Amy Coney Barrett a moment on the one hand of

Astronomical stakes for the country and the court but on the other one drained of drama by the certainty

Of Barrett's confirmation on a narrow and strictly partisan basis

She is on track to be confirmed next week in record time and at record close proximity to the election

Which in fact is already well underway

The president was declared himself cured of the virus though steadfastly refuses to say when he last tested negative

Returned to a version of his open air largely mask-free rallies

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