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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the boats and screwed the rest of you.

Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all the bombshells. Did you catch people's eyes?

Hello and welcome to Words Matter. I'm not Dr. Kavita Patel.

And I know that's a disappointment. I'm just David Rothkopf, but she's away this week. She'll be back next week.

But the great Norm Ornstein is right here. Good morning, Norm.

Good morning, David.

Good to talk to you. I was just watching Secretary Blinken's performance of Hootsie Kuchiemann last night at the State Department.

And it was pretty good.

I'm just resentful. I wasn't invited.

But he is a multi-talented person very clearly.

And as I have said several times in writing, the men she is Secretary of State we have ever had.

If you can imagine Warren Christopher playing guitar.

Wouldn't happen. You know, I remember when I was in the Clinton administration, Warren Christopher was the Secretary of State at the beginning.

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