Hello and welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast.

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen, and this week I'm joined by special guest,

defense reporter Anthony Adragna, fellow Montgomery County native.

We love, go Maryland, go Moco.

Anthony, how you doing?

Love Walwitman High School, go Vikings.

Okay, as a proud BCC bear, and I cannot endorse that message, but I do respect your right to say it.

Anthony, we have a fun topic here.

First, we're going to start off with some news the day, and then we're going to get to Library of Congress.

Before the library, it was a busy week on your beat,

and particularly Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. She was really in the news

and a lot of Democrats have questions about her role in this raid investigation of a local

Georgia County voter role situation.

Talk us through what happened on Capitol Hill this week with regards to Tulsi Gabbard.

Yeah, it's been a really interesting experience this week.

Director Gabbard was spotted in Fulton County, Georgia about a week and a half ago

at the site of the Fulton County Elections Office where there was this

FBI raid. They seized control of these ballots from the 2020 election that President Donald

Trump lost to that, well, future President Joe Biden. There have been a lot of questions swirling

about what she was doing there. It's pretty unprecedented, actually, for the DNI to be down there

conducting those

investigations. So we saw Punch Bull News was first to report that Democrats wanted a briefing

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