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It's axon tap with David Axelrot, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

Hello, Hackarros.

Hope everybody is doing well.

Welcome to our latest edition. We are just at the cusp of the end of January. We're

week away from the famed and fabled state of the union address. If anybody remembers exactly

what that is, I remember watching that on TV and wondering how many people were watching.

And I'm not even sure anybody really cares or does that anymore. But to set up that and

to talk about the events that are going on in our political world, we have assembled,

of course, the one and only Mike Murphy, Mike, tell us who we have assembled today to

give us a lay of the land.

Alrighty, Dr. Gibbs, good to hear your toes, tones here on hacks on tap. And I don't

know about you, but I for one, I am waiting for some of that stirring Biden rhetoric and

oratory because we all know that's what Joe is known for. But yeah, the big state of

the union is coming, such the agenda, important politically and to decode all that to also

help us take a look back at lessons learned in the midterms, talk politics in general.

We have the one and only the grandmaster, the democratic strategist and pollsters, so

if this and chairs, ladies and gentlemen, he does it all our friend, the great Mark

Melman. Hey, Mark, welcome to the pot. Thanks, pleasure to be back. All right. You're

going to want to tangle all this stuff for me. So let me, let me pause it, an idea here.

You can gun it down with surgical precision. Happens a lot. Well, you and I, Melman and

I started together. I mean, on different sides, of course, I'm right. And he's always

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