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Thank you. Work Day, moving business forever forward. Hello and welcome to The Damage Report.

I'm Yasmin Aaliyah Khan, and I'm filling in today for John Ida Rola.

John has the day off but I'm sure he's watching from somewhere and joining me today I have none other than J.R Jackson.

J.R. How are you doing? John is missing the best damn day of the week. It's pretty crazy. I can't understand why he would do such a thing.

The guy knows that Monday is, is you know, the the launching point for the rest of the week. And also, he knows that I'm here. Actually, you know, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I'm why he's not here. I was going to say, are you taking this a little bit personal? Because I'm very excited to be here with you if that, if that makes it any better. It makes it so much better. I'm just saying John's missing out.

It's such a good day.

There's lots happening.

I must say.

There's arguably too much happening.

And you know, there's always, you know, we have two big stories to cover on this show

today, very, you know, top of mind stories.

But then we also have all the other stories, just the regular craziness that is always kind of going on just below the surface, just beneath all of the crazier headlines.

So we have a lot to dig into on that note.

So JR, if you're ready, I'm ready to go.

Listen, Yaz is a lady of action.

Let's make it happen. We're going to make it happen. All right. So we're going to jump right into this first story.

As you all know, there's a lot of war going on or about to go on. So let's take a look at this.

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