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Republican Senator Richard Burke and three other senators sold large amounts of stock while they were

receiving confidential briefings about the coronavirus.

Is this insider training? Let's Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal

prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst.

I'm usually joined by my friend Patty Vasquez and I want to take a moment now to tell all of you

we did have the election here in Illinois this past Tuesday. It doesn't look like Patty was

victorious in that election although the votes are still getting counted, some of

the absentee ballots and so forth. And she will, I just spoke to Betty this morning, she will I just spoke to bady this morning she will be joining us in the future

but you can understand at this point that she wants to spend a little bit of time

with her family before rejoining us on the podcast. But Patty Vasquez is doing well and she's got a great future

ahead of her. And the good news, the upside for all of us is she will be joining us on the

podcast soon. Today we got a really great episode for you but before we get to the

episode in our very special guest, let me first thank our patrons who brought us

this episode. With special thanks to Ariel Blocker, Michelle Dew, Eric

DeWurst, Edi, James Frommeyer, Jay Gellhausen, Jamie Gordon, Steve Hungsburg,

Shania Wachinskyinsky and an anonymous patron. You too can become a patron on our

website on topic podcast.com. Just click the support link at the top of the page.

You may notice this week that the sound quality is a little different than usual

and that's because we are not in the studio this week and we aren't going to be in the studio for the foreseeable future given the unfortunate pandemic we're all facing.

And given that we're all doing this remotely, the sound quality may be a little bit different but we've done everything we can to keep the

quality as high as possible so you can enjoy this this podcast even during this pandemic.

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