I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, February 7th.

Don't look now, but a little bit of bipartisanship and strange bed fellowship seems to be breaking out in Washington.

And contrary to most major news headlines, some wins for President Biden as the midterm

election year gets underway. This bipartisanship, strange bed fellowship includes the crisis in

Ukraine, the attack on the ISIS leader in Syria, a major economic bill in Congress,

just as the president can crow about the January jobs numbers, Omicron on the run,

and even a little bit on January 6th and the big lie.

Did you hear Mike Pence on Friday?

I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election.

President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs

to the American people and the American people alone. And frankly, there is no idea more on American

than the notion than any one person could choose the American president.

Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election.

And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election

when we beat them in 2024.

So that was Pence speaking to the conservative lawyers group, the Federalist Society,

last week. Maybe he's just running for president and has no choice if he's going to be a

competitor to Trump, but it's certainly a change. So we will start there and go on to the war footing

around the globe, vaccine victories over the virus and new wins on the economy, with Grace Seeger,

staff writer for the New Republic, who was writing about most of these things. Grace, thanks for

coming on. Welcome to WNYC. Hey, thanks so much for having me. So what's up with Mike Pence?

Well, I think that Pence, having been there on January 6th, having had his life endangered

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