Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

This week's Politics Guys newsletter features my thoughts on the media freak out following President Trump's news conference.

Leah's take on how Jay and I, to some

extent, may be overly dismissive to feminists, which I was particularly interested in reading because

I consider myself a feminist, Trey, on how over-reliance on data and algorithms may be hurting

the Democratic Party, and Joe's subversive counter-narrative in which he argues that

if you're getting your Trump news from the mainstream media, you're missing a lot. All that and a whole

bunch more good stuff. To get the newsletter, just go to our website, politicsguise.com, and sign up on

the form you'll see there. You can also check out previous issues by clicking on the past

newsletters link above the sign up form. Also, I wanted to thank everyone for their patience with our

minor technical problems last week. We recently switched over to Audio Boom to host our show,

and there were a few feed-related glitches that delayed the release of our last two episodes,

at least to some listeners.

Jake at Audio Boom was incredibly helpful in figuring out what I did wrong, and it was me,

and extremely kind and diplomatic in how he pointed out that I had screwed something up.

I corrected my error, and everything should work out just fine from here on out.

And now, on to this week's show.

Our top story this week is the resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Flynn, who served less than a month in the position, was forced out after revelations that he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the content of conversations with Russia.

President Trump said that while he didn't

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