the office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is here by

declared vacant. The 2024 Republican presidential primary field is taking shape.

The battle lines are becoming clearer and so is the field of candidates.

Is the odds on favorites if you look at the polling still Trump first Biden?

That seems to be it but it's just way too early to talent.

I'm more angry now and I'm more committed now than I ever was.

Big challenge for these candidates is going to be how do they navigate Donald Trump?

And how do they navigate Rhonda Santis?

You and I have a rendezvous with Destiny.

Welcome back to the ruthless variety program. Clearly we've got a lot to talk about today.

You've all been following the news. You've seen the shall we say unrest in the House of Representatives

and the vacancy of now the Speaker of the House with the end of the tenure of

the Speaker of the House which I never thought I'd say it in fact has never happened

in the history of our Republic.

It's never. I thought I saw something like since 1907.

No, it's never happened. Wow, it's never happened.

So K-Mac is out and rather than starting with our sort of usual Thursday episodes where we go

through and have some fun and read some five stars we thought we'd just get right into it.

We're going to have a lot of fun on the back end of this episode.

But on the front end I think you all tuned in for the same reason.

So we might as well just get right to it. Michael I know that you had some media that you

would have been observing and wanted to help sort of frame up this discussion.

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