Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwork, and I'm pleased to be joined by Congressman Jason Crowe again.

We're going to be talking about government shutdown, candidate recruitment for Democrats, bombings of ships in Venezuela and so much more.

Congressman, thanks so much for doing this. Really appreciate it.

Sam, is this good to be back with you?

Yes, we've got to make it a routine. Let's start with the shutdown.

Look, I don't really know. I'm kind of curious, I suppose, how Tuesday night's victories

for Democrats affect the party psyche here. There's a lot of chatter about deals potentially

in the Senate, but less so in the House. What's your like 30,000 foot takeaway on how

the victories on Tuesday impact the way the Democrats approach to shut down?

I actually, I'm going to not view from my personal perspective. I'm not going to view the victories

through a political lens. I just firmly believe that we are holding firm because the guardrails of our democracy,

constitutional and rule of law, require us to make sure that we're not being abused by this

president. It's about health care. It's about hungry kids. And it's about rule of law and making

sure this president doesn't run rough shot over

the Constitution.

And then separate from that, on Tuesday, America was very clear.

They don't like what Trump is doing.

They don't like the politics of chaos and dysfunction that Donald Trump has brought to the

United States government.

They actually want a

reasonable approach to good government in the tariffs, the military adventurism, and all the other

things that Donald Trump is offering to the American people is not what they want, clearly.

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