Straight Shooter with Stephen A.

What's up everybody?

Welcome to this latest edition of Straight Shooter with yours truly,

the one and only Stephen A. Smith coming at you over the digital airwaves of Sirius XM, POTUS Radio, Channel 124. I shouldn't say digital, but the airwaves of SiriusXM, POTUS Radio, Channel 124.

The number of call up as always is 866-967-6887. That's 866-967-8887, 866, 866, 966, 96.

Polis to simplify it.

We've got a jam-packed show coming your way today, tonight, rather.

There is an election that took place last night, specifically and particularly in the state

of New Jersey, in the state of Virginia for the gubernatorial seats, and of course,

in New York for the mayor's seat. And I'll get into that in just a second. We're letting you know

that today on this show, we will have the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the one

and only Jim Jordan coming on with us, along with Speaker of the House,

Mr. Mike Johnson. Both of them will be on the show tonight. Obviously, there's a lot to get into

day 36 of the shutdown. The government has been shut down. Federal employees escalating above

a million haven't been receiving paychecks, 330,000 plus in the nation's

capital in its surrounding areas have not been receiving a check.

Obviously, I am not happy about that at all.

The longest government shutdown in history surpassing the 35 days in 2018 into 2019, which was during President Donald Trump's

first term in office. It is not a good day. It is not a good time. And I'm here to tell you

something right now. I'm not going to act like today's a good time. Now, last week on the show,

and I had Andrew Cuomo, who was a mayoral candidate in New York City, the former three-term

governor in New York State, come on the show for a lengthy period of time in the immediate

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