This is Joel from the top of Yosemite Falls. This podcast was recorded at 1235

Eastern on Wednesday, April 11th. Things may have changed by the time you hear it.

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your local public radio station. Okay, here's the show. I got to hike back down.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about the

surprise news here in Washington this morning. How Speaker Paul Ryan

announced he will not run for reelection this November. Ryan is retiring at the

end of his term. You all know that I did not seek this job. I took it

reluctantly, but I have given this job everything that I have, and I have no

regrets whatsoever for having accepted this responsibility. Ryan went on to say

that after 20 years in Congress, he wants to be more than a weekend dad to his

kids. This is Big News, and we're going to talk about how much it matters. I'm

Scott Detro. I cover Congress for NPR. Susan Davis. I also cover Congress. And

I'm Dominican much and our political editor. All right, and before we get into

Paul Ryan, a quick note, there is a really big episode right behind this one.

In your feed, it gets into Mark Zuckerberg Senate testimony, an FBI raid on

President Trump's attorney's office, Michael Cohen, and also White House

reaction to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. We are watching all those stories.

I bet we will talk about some of them in tomorrow's weekly roundup, but Sue,

Domenico, right now it's all Paul Ryan all the time. I'm ready for it. So let's

start with this Sue because this was a morning of frantic text messages between

you and Kelsey Snell who also covers Congress. We had heard some rumors this

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