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Today, Herschel Walker loses the Georgia runoff election. Joe Biden claims the economy

is getting better and American Girl doll publishes a pro-puberty blocker book for young girls.

We've got all of that and more coming up and it all starts right now.

Welcome to the news and why it matters. I am Sarah Gonzalez and I am joined today by

Jason Bachel, chief researcher of the Glenn Beck program.

All the stops. Shockingly warm in here today. I feel like that's going to be your karma

for dressing up so nice. Shockingly warm. People don't know this but

usually 27 degrees in here all the time. Below zero.

So cold. Matt Marsden, by the way, Matthew Marsden, actor and producer, extraordinaire.

We joke that Glenn keeps it so cold because he wears like 20 layers of clothing.

And we're like, or you could just wear the normal amount of layers and make it a reasonable

temperature in here. But no, it's always like the Arctic tundra except for today.

So I want to get into the headlines here. So yesterday, those of you who are living under

a rock may not have heard of those yet. Herschel Walker did lose the Georgia runoff

Senate. The Georgia runoff election to Raphael Warnock and Democrats will control the Senate

51249 for the GOP. And there's 99% of the vote in last time we checked earlier. Warnock

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