Hey y'all, this is Morgan Schinkle from Colonial Heights, Virginia, and today is a very special

day for my family. This evening, my son is going to graduate from preschool, and this will

be our first in-person school events since February of 2020. This podcast was recorded at

2.26 p.m. on Monday, June 7th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but...

I'm going to get a gun in!

All right, here's the show! That's so sweet! It's always cute to have kids part of it. Kids and

dogs, though, always tough to work with when it comes to showbiz. Hey there, it's the MPR

Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. I'm Domenico Montenegro,

Senior Political Editor and Correspondent, and I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.

And former President Donald Trump returned to the political arena on Saturday night with a speech

at the North Carolina Republican Convention. So, Domenico, you followed the speech, what was it like?

Well, you know, this was Trump getting back into his comfort zone, so to speak. You know, he's

been kicked off of Facebook for at least another two years or up until January 2023 anyway.

So, he's been really silenced on a lot of those mainstream social media platforms, and you know,

he was there in front of a friendly crowd, which we know always energizes him. And you can imagine

what he talked about as a lot of the greatest hits. He, uh, really... How many guests the election

results came up? The election results came up, but not till later. He did continue the lie about

the election that he won and that it was rigged and all of that. He started out with a very dark

and cynical view of the country, very much similar to that, you know, 2017 inauguration speech.

You look at our border is wide open, illegal immigration is skyrocketing at a level that we've

never seen before. And this is over a period of a few months. Drugs are pouring in, gas prices

are sorry, our industries are being pillaged by foreign cyber attacks. That's a lack of respect

...