I'm John Erola, we're very lucky to be starting off the week as we admittedly often do with

Francesca Ferentini, Francesca member of the Dragon Squad, according to the thing you're

wearing. So thank you. Why am I not hearing you now? Did you meet your zone? Okay, well,

we are starting off on a roll. I've got my audio speak again. We were speaking literally

before the show started, so I apologize. Okay, well, we're going to have to figure that out.

Mike, can you hear Francesca? I can hear you now. What happened?

Oh, well, my microphone's going to be a little bit jank. I'll fix it in the break. I'm

sorry about that. I thought I might be having a stroke. No, yeah, it's fine. I just,

my mic got changed and now it's going to be just less good, but that's fine. Okay, good.

I thought Erola was having a stroke because like I looked down and a producer Mike's looking

at me like I'm crazy. So wait, am I just getting very hot and sweaty? Or I thought, you know,

he's a jokes, sir. Maybe she's playing a prank on old John, but anyway, glad to have you

here. Good to have you here. You do you you barter in jokes. I do. So yes, I'm especially

glad to both have you here and be able to hear what you have to say because we have many

things that you're going to want to comment on. Very soon we're going to talk about some

of the staffing changes that might be coming soon to CNN and why that is Bernie Sanders

reacts to what he sees as ageist attacks, which I think is very interesting. Biden heads

to Ukraine with a little surprise visit there. And one of the most notable grifters in politics

today warns against grift. Anyway, with that said, we do have a lot to talk about. So all

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