Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Nick Houselman. And this is an announcement to let you know that we are going to be doing a new series called The Weekender over on Patreon that will appear every Friday. And this is a little sneak preview so you can get a handle on what it's like and why you'd want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing with a lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Muckrake podcast weekender edition uh i'm i'm jared

eight sexton i'm here with nick houseman i i'm a little bit flumicks nick um there are stories

sometimes that um it's hard to wrap your head around it's hard to deal with the enormity of them

what they are what they're saying the weekender edition is usually a little bit of a dress down sort of a thing

we have so much to talk about tonight. We all know the major story right now in American

politics is, of course, this developing controversy with Representative Matt Gates,

who right before we came to air, more developments have come out that we need to talk about

we need to address there are implications of this developing story that are larger that

unfortunately nobody's talking about because they don't really like enjoying talking about

what happens in american politics and with deep politics.

We're going to jump into that.

So please hang out.

You're going to hear some stuff that you're not going to hear anywhere else on this podcast.

But before we even begin, Nick, do you want to do everybody a solid, maybe trying to give a summary for those of us who haven't been

paying attention where are we in this scandal before we can start even unpacking this thing

all right well for sure thank you for throwing it to me because this is my favorite part of

politics probably uh i think you have to go backwards to kind of follow it the Well, for sure. Thank you for throwing it to me because this is my favorite part of politics, probably.

I think you have to go backwards to kind of follow it the easiest way or the most rational way to understand what's going on here.

Because what we know is that there is an investigation from the Department of Justice that was initiated under Bill Barr of Matt Gates, the congressman

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