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Hey everybody, it's Michael Steele here. I know you're waiting for the next big episode

of the Michael Steele podcast, but in the meantime, give a listen to this Michael Steele podcast.

Quick take.

Alright, welcome back everybody. We have a great conversation as you know with Tarsett

Mair who is of CNN, the Lincoln Project, ABC. She is quite the political operative and

and bench, you know. She's got that going on and she likes to ask tough questions of

really nice guys.

Oh, stop it. You know, everyone knows that I'm going to give you shit about this forever

because you were the one person that had the most influence on me not leaving the Republican

Party for so long because I considered it a couple times during the Trump era and you

always told, you know, kind of talk me off the ledge, you and my mom actually for a little

while there and then she said to hell with them too. And it was really just you. And I

said, oh, you know, it makes sense. It makes sense. And then we held on together through

the election, right? I wanted to wait to see you still had hope that we could do something

with these people. But once Donald Trump, after the election, came out there and said,

this election has been stolen. I've won by a landslide. The whole thing was rigged while

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