Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast. I'm here with my

colleague David Tainter. Hey Josh, it's been a minute. Yeah, it's been a while.

A lot of news since we last,

we're on the air.

I feel like there were, what, two, good, two weeks,

maybe, maybe three weeks.

I was on vacation.

We had a couple other, you know, a couple other of us

are in vacation, but we're back now, you know and a couple other of us are in vacation but we're back now you know and and

we're in a funny news period because actually when I was I was on vacation

with my family for about eight or nine days and during that we had the

mala report be delivered to the Department of Justice

a couple days of waiting and this bar letter that is now kind of like

that's TM after it right we had that and then everybody was, you know, kind of the president is out sort of like

high-fiving the world and kind of beating up his perceived enemies.

And even though I will say I thought it was a greatly premature,

it's certainly true a lot of, a lot of, I thought it was a greatly premature.

It's certainly true a lot of a lot of

Trump's opponents were very crestfallen, like,

oh my God, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And now, just in the last two or three days you're having people kind of come forward and saying

People who you know from the direction of the special counsel's office with a little kind of fuzziness.

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