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We're having a great conversation as I mentioned with Brian Arrim, who is the award-winning

journalist, White House correspondent, author, speaker, and the host of his own podcast,

just asked the question. So Brian, we were talking about your answer me. And this week with

the question, and that's how, that's what it's going to become. I think in the annals

of this moment, in this period, when historians look back on it, there are going to be two,

two, I think, well three, probably really revealing moments. One will be the president's

revelations about how he feels about our many women in uniform. How he really feels. Two

will be what ironically enough are going to be known as the Woodward tapes from the 18

hours of interviews that he did, the president did. And three, the question about fair and

fair election and peaceful transition of power. You wrote a piece back that was actually out

yesterday regarding where this country is right now on the heels of the passing of justice,

Ruth Bette Ginsburg. And the piece entitled An Empty Seat and an unhealthy republic. And you

you say, and this was, you can find it's folks at Playboy.com because Brian writes for Playboy,

wink wink nod nod. And excuse people get for buying the magazine. Exactly, exactly. And he reads

all the articles he writes. So, but in this one piece, you note, the United States is now

country dominated by the tyranny of the minority. We're not a democracy. We're not a republic.

Our government is run by aging, rich, white, overseers who have a stranglehold on the needs of the

many to please the wealthy few, to hell with the rest of us. For the GOP, it is short-sighted,

it is ignorant, it is arrogant. I ascribe to those words. And it's unfortunate. I mean, one of the

the great pains for me in the last three years, last five years, has been watching my party slip

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