It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

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Is that pink or red? It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

Before we get to the topic matter of the podcast, we don't usually do breaking news for the podcast because it would be kind of silly, since by definition, you're going to listen to it, you know, later today or this week or two years from now.

But Kamala Harris just stepped to the microphone.

Everybody carried it live for a big announcement about the news of the day.

And she walked up to a podium with, it looks like, the White House binder. Anyway, some Washington,

D.C. looking building with an American flag on one side, another flag, another side.

And all the trappings of I'm president of the United States, walked up to the microphone in the podium and just talked about with the revelations today that Donald Trump admires Hitler and his desire to be a fascist.

The American people have a decision to make.

Do we want to allow this to happen, Donald Trump, to take total power, or are we going to choose a different direction?

We have 13 days to decide, and then she turned around and walked off.

I mean, it was super over-the-top dramatic, the way it looked and everything.

You're going to tell me that I'm shaking my head.

I'm trying to comprehend this. I bet that whole thing was coordinated.

The Jeffrey Goldberg Atlantic piece with Kelly and the tape and then we're going to release it.

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