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I'm looking at front of me some really disastrous numbers.

Latest Gallup poll approval rating for Congress, 15%.

Not 50%, 15%.

I'm also noticing that 53 members of Congress are going to be not seeking re-election in the 26 midterm elections.

That's pretty devastating for the institution.

So why do you consider that to be devastating news? Number one, if Congress is so bad that their

approval ratings only 15%, then maybe swap it out over 10% of it. Not the worst idea. Maybe we just

got to get the roster better. It's like, you know, the Jets and the Giants have had terrible years, so I would expect a few of those team members to come back. But I do think it's telling because, you know, some people are leaving Congress to want to go out and, you know, they're going to run for different offices, right? Like Chip Roy is running for AG in Texas. Wesley Hans running for Senate. So it was Jasmine Crockett. But you hear rumors, and we've been hearing it for some time, that there is a growing sense of dissatisfaction in specifically the House GOP caucus. Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, it's a very razor-thin majority. And a lot of people are frustrated. It seems to be dysfunctional.

You've got people like Marjorie Taylor Green that make noise and kind of disrupt everything.

So we wanted to talk to somebody who's actually been there.

Our good friend Jason Chaffetz, he was the chairman of the House Oversight Committee,

very powerful committee, serving Congress representing Utah.

And he's also a distinguished fellow with the Government Accountability Institute where we work.

Jason, make sense of these numbers.

I mean, why are the numbers 15%, which is historically low?

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