So before we get to the big news of the day, I wanted to give you a quick update on the story that we reported earlier this week about DEI in medicine and surgery and many of the tapes that we showed you on this show with regard to Duke medical school and people working at Duke talking about how diversity, equity, and inclusion should be top priorities as opposed to, you know, the merit of particular

surgeons. Well, Duke still has not responded to any of this. We have still a waiting comment from the Duke

Medical School dean. We do know that some of the tapes were then removed, that some of the tapes

that were up and had been put up presumably by an associated student group that those tapes were taken down,

but we have not heard anything after many requests for comment from the leadership of Duke.

Members of Congress are calling for an investigation into everything that's happening at these

medical schools, what's happening with regard to surgery. And we know this is just the tip of the

iceberg, by the way. The prevalence of

diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of American life, including the most critical

aspects where the only thing you care about is, you know the competence of the person as opposed

to their life experiences or the color of their skin. We know that we've uncovered just the tip of

the iceberg. So we now have a tip line. If you have something we should look into, please send it our way. ASAP, put my name in the subject line. It'll get to my team immediately. Tips.dailywire.com. We'll get our investigative team on that immediately. Tips. Dot dailywire.com. Okay, now on to the big news of the day. So the big news of the day is that Mitch McConnell has announced that in the fall he is going to step down from his position as GOP leader. That will be presumably before the election.

McConnell announced his decision in the well of the Senate. And here's what he had to say.

To serve Kentucky in the Senate. It's been the honor of my life.

To lead my Republican colleagues has been the highest privilege.

But one of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to life's next chapter.

So I stand before you today, Mr. President, and my colleagues to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.

Okay, so the question, of course, is who replaces him, but the blowback

on this has been kind of extraordinary on the right, people who are shouting about the evils of Mitch

McConnell. Now, Mitch McConnell is one of the most effective Machiavellian political operators of my

lifetime. I don't like a lot of the things that he passed. But to pretend that Mitch McConnell was not

an effective operator is just false. The reason that there is a 6-3 Republican-appointed majority

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