Straight Shooter with Stephen A. What's up, everybody?

Welcome to this latest edition of Straight Shooter with yours, Truly.

Stephen A. coming at you, as I love to do every single Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time over the airways of Sirius XM, POTUS Radio, Channel 124.

The number to call up, as always, is 866-967- 6-8-8-7. That's 866-967.

POTUS. You know, I got a lot of stuff to get into because clearly this is day 22 of the

government shutdown. It's now the second longest funding lapse in modern history,

eclipsed only by the 35-day shutdown in late 2018 and early 2019 when Donald Trump was in his first term as president.

But before I get into that, I want to play some interesting sound for you because in light of the whole

brouhaha that I've been embroiled in involving Representative Jasmine Crockett out of Texas,

I wanted to take the liberty, even with my swollen jaw, courtesy of emergency root canal surgery,

by the way, I'm sitting up here looking like a chipmunk for crying out loud, but I'm here.

I wanted to make sure that I played this sound because I wanted to get to a bigger point in talking to all of y'all tonight about everything that's been transpiring.

We've got Governor Pritzker from Illinois coming on the show.

We've got the representative out of Arizona coming on the show as well,

who's waiting to be sworn in by Speaker Mike Johnson.

We got all of that stuff coming up.

Before I get into any of that, I want you to listen to Representative Jasmine Crockett

out of the state of Texas.

This is her on the Lori Daniel Favors show on Urban View Radio,

Sirius XM, Channel 186 earlier.

Listen to what Representative Crockett had to say.

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