Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

Well, hello, hello. This is a different type of scoop as we start off this week.

We usually have scoop on Monday, and I miss seeing you on Monday because unfortunately,

I was not well.

And although I have the bad habit of working through illness, I could not actually achieve

that at this particular time because I literally could not sit up in bed.

And I thought, you know what, they deserve better than that.

So we're not going to do scoop on Monday, although it pains me to do that in so many ways

because we had such a big news weekend.

And I hate missing you on a Monday morning when we can just get

prepped and ready for the week and kind of get in order for what we're watching for. So if we

don't want to follow every single breaking news headline during the week, we have a foundation

for what's going on. And that's one of the whole purposes for Scoop. By the way, if you're a first

time Scoop listener or Scoop member, welcome. We really

appreciate your support for smarter news. You are a key part of building, a solution in news,

and quick and concise, nonpartisan news. That's an investment. I mentioned this on social media

this weekend and it just came out, but I felt like it sounds right. This is an investment in your sanity

during a time where there's a lot of

media clutter. So I really appreciate you. Thank you for your flexibility this week. And as I did learn

in live television, what I used to work in that medium, you know, you would get really prepared for a two-hour

live program. And that was your time. That was it. You only

have this time. And let's say there was a senator I was interviewing or ambassador. There was a

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