It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving weekend.

And I want to say thank you to everyone who worked this weekend, while everyone else had time off,

all the retail workers and restaurant workers and taxi and rideshare drivers and all first responders,

law enforcement and medical first responders of all kinds everywhere.

And I'm sure your work was even more poignant than usual after the horrible shooting

of two National Guard

members on the day before Thanksgiving in D.C. Let's remember their names. West Virginia National

Guard member Sarah Bextram, just 20 years old, was murdered in the shooting. Andrew Wolf,

age 24, survived, but is currently hospitalized and listed in serious condition. And you know who else

worked a lot this weekend? While you may have been relaxing and not following the news,

President Trump did a lot. He talked about removing one Latin American head of state who

accuses of directing drug smuggling into the United States while he

pardoned another pardoned another Latin American head of state convicted here of exactly that.

He continued to go back and forth on who to blame for the lack of resolution on the Russia-Ukraine

peace plan drafts they've been working on. The president also

responded to the National Guard shooting with a sweeping new immigration crackdown. Now, the

shooting was reportedly by one person acting alone, who was reportedly having major mental health

problems, but the president keyed on one fact about the person that he was from Afghanistan.

And in fact, as you may have heard, if you followed any news this weekend, he had helped the United

States in the war in Afghanistan and was given asylum in this country this year by the Trump

administration because the Taliban would probably have wanted to kill him.

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