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Mark Warner will spare no time telling you he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee for a few years, even its chair.

He never leaves.

And is there a more tensile position in the U.S. Senate than the Intelligence Committee right now as we look at the state craft that's being employed both inside and outside of the

United States and what is really happening in a lot of these stories.

So when he faced a challenger coming up in the midterms, that was a big story.

A big story yesterday was that challenger bowed out of the race early because of health concerns

within his family. He's joining us now. He is Virginia State Senator Bryce Reeves. Bryce, good

morning, sir. How are you doing today? And prayers for your family. I hope all is going well.

Joe, good morning and Merry Christmas and a happy New Year coming.

Amen.

Yeah, we were disappointed.

To say the least, we had put in a lot of effort so far and we feel like that we would

have made a pretty good challenger to Mark Warner.

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