Hey everybody. It is January 2nd, 2020. We are two days into the new year and we are taping an

emergency podcast. I am your co-host, Chair Deid Sexton. I am here with my co-host, Nick

Houseman. Things are going down, Nick.

Without question, this was a response in our penance to doing a podcast that was actually

a little bit positive last time.

Yeah, we started out 2020 with an eye towards the future with a little bit of hope.

And then on the second day of the year, U.S. forces have taken out one of the main Iranian officials,

Cassium Sulaamami, and we are now in a state, if not in a state of war.

We are in a state of possible war, an escalation that I don't think anyone had foreseen.

And certainly from reports Donald Trump making this decision, which is what the Pentagon has said, did not warn our diplomats,

our intelligence agents, members of Congress, or anybody who would usually be warned of this.

I'm in shock. I assume you're in shock, Nick. And here we are.

At least Eric Trump knew about it ahead of time. He had posted on social media, no less, on New Year's Eve, a quote, about to open up a big old can of whoopass, icon of the American flag, hashtag, don't mess with the best.

Hashtag USA, USA.

So subsequently deleted, but they're hanging out in Mara Lago, the southern White House.

Isn't that what we called it? And in their own, their version of a situation room is the balcony

or the terrorists where they eat dinner with all the other guests. So I have no doubt that

everybody at Mara Lago probably knew about this going ahead of it happening.

And the consensus seems to be, and it seems reasonable, that they had that Trump had certainly,

specifically had just no conception of what this act does and what it means.

Yeah. Yeah. And, and, you know, like just you stating those facts really upset me and bummed me out.

Like, and pissed me off, Nick.

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