Hello and and I'm here with my co-host Claire welcome back happy new year

hey happy new year to you Jen it's been a minute did you survive too many cookies

and too much wine I did a lot of cookies a lot of wine and as I discussed with you earlier a lot of babysitting of my husband's

grandchildren which was fabulous like using your brain in a different way but also kind of a lot of work.

Well, I'm ready to give lessons any time as a grandmother of 14, almost 15.

So I've had some experience.

Yeah, I was like, I was pretty good at it. I was proud of myself. I was pretty good at it. But

2024 is here and it's all happening. The Iowa Caucus is next Monday. We're gonna spot like that

as the first election test for 2024. With our take-home

what you should be watching for there and what the results will mean for the

Republican primary moving forward but I mean I love election years. And you know

today we're also going to look at immigration. I think people need to realize

that are trying to ignore this issue, that if we're going to talk about how to win 2024 and we're

not talking about immigration, we're going to get in trouble. Record numbers coming across the border.

We have had millions of people come across the border

in the last several years.

And something has to happen here.

The Democrats have to address this.

We're going to talk to Congressman

Veronica Escobar who represents the El Paso area, who is very, very

knowledgeable about all of the ins and outs of this issue and how we need to

handle it both from a position of being humanitarian and

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