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Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall Podcast with Kate Riga.

We've got a number of things we're going to talk about today but it does sort of feel

like we're in a bit of a weird, I was going to say summer doldrums but it's not summer.

We just had Labor Day and we're off to the races with September but the topics we're

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