All right.

Let's do it.

Hey everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams.

Hey everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams.

Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

I'm Kyle Rizdell, thank you. Thank you, thank you for

joining us on this Wednesday 28 feb. Today we will do what we usually do. In a Wednesday,

news and then some smiles, we will jump right into it. I will just read from my note in the

rundown here, Ms Adams, it says, we should riff on McConnell for a bit.

We should indeed, so as folks who will probably are listening to this will probably have heard by now,

the Senate minority leader has announced that he will step down as the Republican leader,

starting in November after as a AP headline says a record run in the job

he's been in that job gosh for how long decades. Since 2007, so...

Since 2007, and he's 82.

And his term ends in January 2027,

he says he's going to serve out the end of the terms. His term ends in January 2027.

He says he's going to serve out the end of the terms,

serve out his term.

But, you know, wow, there's such impact that McConnell has had on the Senate and on

American politics you know very famously blocking the Supreme Court nomination

of Merrick Garland just sort of working with

Trump in the way that he did blocking Obama's you, administration goals saying out loud that his whole purpose was to make

...