Hi, this is Josh Marshall. This is the Josh Marshall podcast. We have, you know,

we've, the last several, I guess the last few months, like the beginning of every podcast we talk about like what the latest thing is either on impeachment or before became impeachment this Ukraine story now we're sort of moving back into the Democratic primary

election as a key thing we have a debate tonight we're recording this episode

about a little after noon on Tuesday, January the 14th.

We have the debate tonight, we have the Iowa Caucasus,

and I guess a little, what, a little less than a month?

Yeah, three weeks or so?

Three weeks or so? Okay. Okay on the second or third of February.

Right, and we've had a sort of a spate of dropouts. Corey Booker dropped out yesterday.

You have sort of comic relief dropouts like Marion

was Marion Williamson yeah it's right dropped out like a few days ago that's right I mean

it's you know it's funny and Castro before that was a

right cast another real yeah I mean obviously neither castro or

book or ever really gain traction

in a polling sense, but they were, you know, people who a lot was expected of, I think definitely people who most people rightly think have important political futures and

in Castro's case even though he didn't get any traction

uh... electorally in a polling term in polling terms he definitely moved the ball on

immigration policy issues. I think a lot of and I think a lot of people expect

maybe he will be a vice presidential pick right?

Yeah I mean he's definitely in the mix and that certainly you know one of several people

who kind of like if you're looking to do X or Y, like, okay, that's a logical thing.

There's a whole, you know, we're going to get into a lot in this episode, but there's, it's very

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