Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objector.

I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist.

But today, I'm an unapologetic, woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of

the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond. Our goal is to try

and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh

through the tears. What a great show we have for you today.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars newsletter and

contributor to Zateo, is here to break down how Donald Trump's incoming administration is

poised to reshape U.S. Middle East policy through a dangerous clash of civilizations lens.

Then, Edith Olmsted, Associate Writer for the New Republic,

joins us to unpack Elon Musk's drawing political influence

to the Republican Party's chaos and the latest twists in Donald Trump's legal troubles.

But first, let's have some fun.

So we are, but a handful of days away from the Christmas holiday.

And Elon Musk is the gift that just keeps on fucking giving coal and shit to America.

And it's just the beginning.

So with a day to go to avoid a partial government shutdown, the president-elect, Elon Musk, has taken to his broke-down social media site to threaten Republican members of Congress that if they vote for this bipartisan continuing resolution that would fund the government

through March, that he is going to spend his disgusting amount of wealth on primaring them.

And he is using not only his own ex account, but the made-up agency Doge's account to

spread wild misinformation about the 1500 page bill. And what he said in one of his posts was, and I'm paraphrasing, let's close this place down.

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