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This is John Chai. I'm at Cummingo in Norwalk, Iowa and I'm just about to get home from rag-ri.

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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here to say hello to President Trump's new Chief of Staff, John Kelly, and goodbye to Anthony Scaramucci,

who just hours after Kelly took charge was ousted as White House Communications Director.

Scaramucci lasted just 10 days on the job, but his 10-year was, we'll call it memorable.

We're also going to field some listener questions. I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress for NPR. I'm Jeff Bennett. I also cover Congress.

And Daniel Kurtz, I've been political reporter.

Well, like John, Daniel and I were at Rag-Bry last week riding our bicycles across Iowa.

Yes, we were.

And you two were missed.

We're, did we miss anything during that week that was chock full of news?

Yeah, I just got, I just put Twitter back on my phone with it with a twinge of sadness.

Like, here it is again.

And you guys have to explain what Rag-Bry is because I didn't know what that even was until about, oh, say, three weeks ago.

Right. So Rag-Bry stands for registers as in Des Moines registers.

Register's annual great bike ride across Iowa. This was the 45th one.

It was started back in the day by, I believe, a few Des Moines register columnists.

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