Hey everyone, it's Rachel Maddo. Here's a new thing, and I think this is smart. I've done a whole bunch of podcasts for MSNBC, and my podcasts are not sitting around chatting about the news of the day style podcasts. They are stories. They're long-form, original, occasionally award-winning, original series. And now there is an easy place to get all

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Thanks, you at home for joining us this hour. It is December 23rd. Tomorrow is Christmas

Eve. So Merry Christmas to everybody who celebrates. I actually have two news Christmas

presents for you.

One of them I'll tell you about in a little bit later on this hour,

something I am going to give you as a Christmas present on Christmas day.

We will get to that later on this hour.

But the other one is just this. It is a true story that I think of as a Christmas present. It at least I think

is, can maybe be something helpful for understanding today's news. And it arrives at an auspicious

time. All right. This is a story about this man. His name is Joseph E. Davies. He was born in Wisconsin to immigrant parents. He got involved in Democratic Party politics. He became Democratic Party chairman in the state of Wisconsin. He then moved to Washington, had some government jobs. He ended up getting very, very rich as a

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