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Worldwide? Hello media consumers welcome to Press Box. Brian Curtis of the

Ringer here along with producer Brian Waters. I want to bring in today's guest host, Oliver Darcy.

For years, Oliver wrote the media newsletter, reliable sources for CNN.

As I have said before, it wasn't an essential resource for this podcast. It was the essential resource,

and Oliver made a specialty of covering stories at the point where the media and politics rub up against each other.

Oliver just left CNN to start a new venture

and a new newsletter, which is called Status.

I've already hit that subscribe button.

You should too.

Oliver, welcome to the press box.

Thank you, Brian. Thank you for that very generous introduction.

All right, before we get to your new gig, let's talk about a few election stories you've been covering

this week in status. The first Kamala Harris Donald Trump debate is happening

September 10th, we think, on ABC, the rules of the debate have been at issue what's your latest reporting from

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