Hey, everyone, welcome to from the kitchen table. I'm your host, Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast, but also my partner in life, Rachel Campos Duffy.

Thank you, Sean.

You know, there's been so much going on this week that we decided not to have a guest and just talk you and I about all the things we have been talking about all week because it's just, it's like news overload.

Nonstop coffee, nonstop conversation.

Not stop conversation about the world, which feels like it's going to implode. Like it's, it's like a really scary time for us right now. Not just for Americans, but for the world. I mean, we feel like, you know, things are going right. And you know, I'm on, I was on air last weekend and Russia goes into nuclear alert. I mean, when I was on Fox and Friends, I mean, that was kind of freaky. Really freaky. And what's important is when you have these troubling times, you wanna make sure that you have leaders in place that can help address crises. And it was interesting as this crisis has happened, happening, the president coincides with his state of the union address.

So we were able to tune in and go, what is the vision of the president and how we're going to handle all of these crises on our horizon?

I know who feels good knowing that Joe Biden, who's really not mentally there?

Thank you, Jill Biden.

I blame Jill Biden for all of this.

And also,

Millie and General Austin in charge of our military. Who feels good? Blinkin. Who feels good

with any of these people in charge at such a crazy moment? And in fact, I think what we've both

been talking about, and I think a lot of

people have as well, is that we're in this situation because of those leaders. It is, you know,

what happened in Afghanistan, they're inaction on China and the sort of passes that they've given to

China all along that have emboldened, you know,

Russia, which is acting in conjunction with China, I think, through a lot of this, or at least

in consultation with them. I think when we talk about Russia, you got to talk about China at the

same time. Yeah, no, I think you do. And I mean, just from my vantage point, I served in Congress, as you know, because we

Yeah, let's talk about the state of union because the state union was a big deal for you.

Remember when you first, the first time you got to go? Yeah, before we get that, I was going to talk when you talk about Lloyd Austin, I want to go back to this. thought I wanted to hire the best people in in my congressional office the smartest people the

best talent that I could get I wanted to hire because you wanted to be the dumbest guy in the room I did

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