I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Brightport News and author of the best-selling book, Breaking the News.

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We've got a big show lined up for you today.

We'll get into the Kyle Rittenhouse non-verdict, which internet rumors are suggesting that this is partially, if not entirely, because people are afraid.

They're afraid in acquittal will lead to some sort of a maybe personal backlash for the jurors, and certainly riots in our streets is something

that many of us are anticipating. And thus, as of the time we're recording this, the verdict has not

yet been rendered, but we'll be keeping a close eye on that

at bright port.com throughout the day. And if we get a verdict today, of course, that will be at the very

top of the show tomorrow. We'll break down Alejandro Mayorkas's testimony to the Senate yesterday,

where he admitted he's not vetting Afghanistan refugees. He's the Department of Homeland Security

Secretary, of course,

and he's pled ignorance on Joe Biden's planned reparations for law-breaking illegal aliens who

had come to the country and then been separated temporarily from alleged family members,

and he blamed all of the troubles at the border on the Congress, not on Joe Biden, not billing the

wall, cutting off for Maine in Mexico, or any of his failings in the job. It is all Congress's

fault, which I interpret as code for, we need more amnesty. All that comes up in the monologue

portion of the show. Biden's approval was worse than ever

in cratering. And a vice president, Heather Curtinbach, aka Kamala Harris, is not going to be

the solution to that. Her approvals even lower. And now there are rumors suggesting that they are

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