Welcome to the Bullwork podcast. I'm Charlie Sikes. If you're catching up this morning,

apparently fist bump diplomacy didn't have the expected impact that MBS joined with Vladimir

Putin to shoot the United States on oil production. The Oathkeeper trial is resuming from

with testimony from new witnesses big story in the Washington Post this morning that a majority

of GOP nominees 299 and all deny the 2020 election results. We have the Gasly story of the day,

the gunman attacking a daycare center in Thailand. The Herschel Walker hits just keep on coming

new story in the Daily Beast. She had an abortion with Herschel Walker. She also had a child with

him. Walker says he has no idea who the woman was who claimed she had an abortion. No idea,

but apparently he knows her quite well since she's the mother of one of his children. On day two

of all of this, he's already rolling out the if I did it, defends that if I did it,

I would have admitted it and I'd be forgiven for it and would be understandable, but I didn't do it.

And of course, people like you, you, it just sort of swallow all of that. So it's an interesting

dynamic that Herschel Walker is lying. The GOP and the media enablers know that he's lying. He knows

they know that he's lying and everybody's completely okay with it. So happy Thursday,

everyone. Our guests today, major Garrett Chief Washington correspondent for CBS News,

also the hosts of the Takeout podcast and the debrief podcast. And David Becker, his co-author

of a new book, David is election law contributor to CBS News Executive Director of the Center for

Election Innovation and Research in a former trial attorney in election law at the Department of

Justice and they're out with a new book, The Big Truth, upholding democracy in the age of the

big lie. Major Garrett, David Becker, thanks for joining me. Charlie, I was a pleasure. Thank you.

Great to be here, child. I'll be really honest with you. I'm really at the stage thinking,

you know, do we need another another fucking book about the Trump era? Do we need another

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