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Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Trey Ornorth, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined again on our midweek show with Mike Baranowski, a retired professor of political science.

Mike, welcome back to our extra oversized package holiday gift extraravaganza.

Looking forward to it.

We really kind of went, not off the rails, but we got into some stuff, especially at the end of the weekend show.

I'm looking forward to picking up where we left off and having a good solid discussion about a bunch of stuff.

Yeah, so we got a bunch of stories we got a couple stories we're going to cover.

And then we're going to do some fun things.

We're going to talk about our political journeys.

We're going to have some rants and recommendations.

And we're going to make political predictions for the upcoming year in a new holiday, well, an old holiday tradition for the politics, guys.

So the first story that we're going to get to that we had left off was Hegsteth versus Kelly.

And in some ways, that's not a bad one.

Since my guess is even by the time you're listening to this in the middle of the week,

we probably haven't seen a resolution to this particular one.

But things got really real, if you will, in the ongoing feud between

Senator Kelly and the Pentagon. Last week on the 15th of December, the Pentagon, which again,

the administration has begun referring to as the Department of War, officially escalated its

preliminary review of Senator Mark Kelly into a formal command investigation. Now,

unless you're just deep into these kind of things, your first question is going to be,

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