Hey, pull up a chair.

It's tax on tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

I'm doing okay. My hands are washed. The house is more or less under control. The six-year-old

has been cornered for an hour. So I'm ready to do a little hacken and tapen with our special

guest. We brought him back, you know. The ringmaster of the circus, the Lord of the

Re-count. John Hyalman, hey brother. Hey man, how are you guys doing? I got to say after

listening to Rob last week, I figured I'd be out of a job here because the dude, like,

I first of all, I was not sure either one of you would be able to do another episode because

he blew the doors off the place and then I thought to myself, he said, he said, a very high

standard for all the rest of us, my God. Pressure's on. Yeah, well, we had to choose carefully

because we knew people would be listening this weekend. We had to have a real pro in

here. Absent that we grabbed you. Yeah, that guy was sick. So by the time we got down to

the H's, it was pretty much one pick. Hitler's nephew or you. So here you are. By that standard,

I'm by that standard, I'm a call 160 days, guys. 160 days from the election. 114 days until

people somewhere in America start voting on early votes. Joe Biden has come outside a

kind of political groundhog situation to signal that the general election is on. And it

feels like, and I know, John, you did a, you did a thing on the, on the recount the other

day about where things stood. I mean, the dynamic is pretty good for Biden right now.

I mean, look, you think about the core six Balagran states and those all six of those states,

Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona. Why are they the core

six Balagran states that the old six that both sides are advertising get right now, you

know, you guys know you're the hacks, right? It doesn't matter what campaign say, watch

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