The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. I'm John Lovett.

I'm Tommy Dittor.

And joining us in studio as a special guest host,

the host of the Rachel Maddow show

and best-selling author whose new book is called Prequel,

an American fight against fascism Rachel Maddow.

Welcome back.

It's nice to see you.

Great to see you.

Last time I was here I was on crutches, John remembered.

Yeah, yeah.

That was my last book to where I did the whole thing on crutches.

Right, it was October of 2019.

Before it all began.

Before it all began.

All right, we're going to talk about your book a bit later.

We're also going to talk about President Biden's growing number of political challenges and Donald Trump's growing number of legal challenges. But first, we are now on week three of House Republicans failure to agree on which of them should be Speaker,

a clown show that has paralyzed the government just a few weeks before it runs out of money

and just a few days after President Biden asked Congress to pass a hundred billion dollars in additional funding to defend Ukraine against Putin, Israel against Hamas, Taiwan against China, and beef up security along our southern border.

So since Jim Jordan went down in flames, and beef up security along our southern border.

So since Jim Jordan went down in flames last week,

eight House Republicans have declared their candidacy for Speaker.

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