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Hey, hey, rabbits, rabbits, rabbits. It's the first day of the new month here, the first of August,

and we've got a lot to talk about today. I want to share with you the story of how a child killer

set the stage for today's Republicans to revel in cruelty.

There's a fascinating backstory, a crazy alert on Donald Trump and his wife,

Ivana's gravesite. This is bizarre. I mean, it's like morbid bizarre, but I'll tell you about that

in a few minutes. I want to get into why the Republican Party is saying that they want to ban

child support, seriously. It has something to do with abortions. I'll tell you about that.

And also, I want to do a deep dive into elections. It's primary season and there are elections

and I believe five states and some of them are quite consequential, particularly one in Kansas.

But to start off, my op-ed today over at HartmanReport.com is titled How a Child Killer Set the Stage

for today's Republicans to revel in cruelty. And it's a really amazing story. I mean, there's

kind of three pieces to it. The first is ironrand. Ironrand came to the United States at the age

of 19 when she was 12 years old. Her father's pharmacy, she was Russian and her father's and lived

in St. Petersburg and her father's pharmacy was seized by the Bolsheviks. And this was the Bolshevik

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