Hello and welcome to the Josh Marshall podcast this is David Tainter subbing in for

for Josh today I'm joined by Kate Riga our co-host as always Kate how are you I'm good how are you David good well we are in the final like home stretch of the election and the campaign and I guess it's what three weeks since yesterday. It's hard to believe

but I can't give a numerical count again last pot I said the wrong number like

18 times so you don't want to be you don't want to be yeah time is not real in quarantine. I can't keep up.

No exactly that's so true. Well the last couple of days you've been busy covering the

Amy-Conney-Boney Barrett confirmation hearings.

They started on Monday, which was a federal holiday,

so kind of off to a slow start,

but it, you know, doesn't matter too much

because, I guess it's mostly just speechifying by senators and Amy

Coney Barrett basically just read her opening statement so the question and answer

portion I guess got going yesterday so I want to talk to you about that and then just like I said

the final stretch to the campaign kind of what we're seeing what what sort of any

telltale signs there are out there comes on the week that we were supposed to have this second presidential debate but

Trump pulled out Biden booked a town hall and then NBC rewarded Trump with a town hall of his own

on Thursday night so we'll have dueling events then but before we get started let's remind our listeners the

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