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I'm I'm Jonathanart, and welcome to K-P-Up.

Michael Steele is back.

The former chair of the Republican National Committee and I sat down outside at the Inside American

Politics Conference at Villa la Pietra, the NYU campus in Florence, Italy.

I asked him his thoughts on the midterm elections, the impending speakership of Nancy Pelosi,

and whether the real focus should be on Senate

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Here what he has to say about all of this right now.

Michael Steele, welcome back to the podcast.

Welcome back, indeed.

It's so good to be with you.

So I want to let everyone know.

I got choked up there, I was so excited. I want to let everyone know that we are coming to you from Villa La Pietra,

NYU Florence for the annual Inside American Politics Conference and we're sitting outside so if you hear

students walking by and automobile noises that is what's going on and you said that

was such good fluent Italian.

So we're having this conversation now what a few days after the the midterm elections Democrats retook the majority in the House. Republicans added perhaps a couple of seats,

seats in the Senate.

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