Governor Comey. Oh my gosh. Six foot eight governor. That's what American needs.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew

Glaciace, joined by Darlin, and Yohi Driesen, both frequent guests in the past. Glad to have you both

with us. Thanks Matt. Good to be here. And obviously this week has been Infrastructure Week. It's

dominated attention in Washington. We did have a request from the Facebook group for some analysis

of the air traffic control privatization proposal, but we are not going to talk about that today

because also former FBI director James Comey came to the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday

and told his version of events. I mean, it was a striking moment in American politics. It seemed to

me completely separate from the legal issues simply to have former FBI director, former deputy attorney

general, well respected, Republican-ish, public figure standing there under oath saying the president

is a liar. The administration was defaming the FBI. And to me that brought home the sort of

gravity of the oddness of the situation that we find ourselves in. That we have a lot of

investigatory questions, but also just this kind of fundamental baseline reality that

leading figures in the government are saying this quite openly about the president of the United

States. And the Republicans on the committee did not really have a substantive defense.

Yeah, I mean, I'm going to go out on a limb and start this by saying I think the yesterday was good

for the Republic, which is a phrase that I rarely use unironically, but I think this deserves. If you

think about the fact that we have this notion that what makes drama in American politics is the

clash of ideas. That is a noble idea, but often in practice, whether it's on the floor of the Senate

or on cable news means that you just put two people who disagree next to each other and have

them yell at each other. And that's what makes drama to have something that was such an event,

that was such an act of political theater, where the drama wasn't two people disagree about what

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