If we don't get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February

15th again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution

of the United States to address this emergency.

Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.

We're back from our holiday hiatus. This is, I, we did the last, we have sort of an informal

hiatus policy, but this was our our holiday hiatus and now we're back

we're back to our our weekly uh... schedule and and actually we're

we're back and we're trying out, we're going to try out something a slightly different

format that will bring in my co-host David T Tainter, some more, and also just, you know, we want to, we want to, there's so much

goddamn news going on. It's crazy. Yeah, and so much of it is, is both terrible from a civic point of view but really quite wonderful from a

TPM point of view.

So we want to talk about it.

So all right, before we get any further, I want to remind you that now that we are back from the hiatus,

Grady's Cold-Rue Ice Coffee is back being the sponsor of the Josh Marshall Podcast.

And I have something a little off message

to discuss after this, but it's not great,

but Grady's has nothing to do with it.

So I don't want to kind of get them crosswise with any major coffee corporations.

That's understanding.

So, okay.

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