Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to Lemon Live at 5, the Down Limon Show.

We're so glad that you could be here.

I'm actually feeling maybe, maybe a little bit better. I don't know, but we'll see. We'll see

if it holds. Got a little sleep between live feeds today, live streaming today. So let's see what

happens. But I do have someone here who's going to cheer me up because I've known him for a long time. He's one of my favorite people in the world. But I digress. I'll introduce him in just a second. We have so much to discuss tonight.

We've got a lot to discuss. It's very busy news day from a prominent Senate Democrat announcing their attention not to seek re-election.

And this one, I believe, is real because she is very widely liked.

So we'll go through that.

And then we have a series of explosive exchanges between Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing to the first reported cases of, oh, my gosh.

I hope we're not going back at this again.

Bird flu.

In humans.

Remember SARS? Remember remember COVID. I don't know where to begin,

but I have someone who, wherever we begin, they can help me out on this because they're a pro at it.

And that is my friend, longtime friend and really longtime coworker, former cowork, and an excellent co-pilot on excitement night.

Mr. Jeffrey Tudan.

Jeffrey is a veteran legal analyst,

a veteran legal analyst, right?

And then he also was a CNN analyst for a while,

and ABC news analyst, and heavily minted,

contributing opinion writer, newly minted,

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