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So Jonah, it's a Sunday. We're all mining our business once again on a weekend.

This one was perhaps a little less of a surprise except the way that it happened. You know a Sunday

afternoon Joe Biden putting out a letter to the American people saying he's

bowing out of the nomination race. I think we all assumed that he would give an address from

the Oval Office that he would sort of go out on his own terms. This felt very much

like frankly someone acting under duress, potentially Nancy Pelosi's dress.

I'm curious, Jonah, how inevitable was this? Who's going to end up sort of in history looking like the good guy the bad guy all that stuff?

Well first of all you're right we actually have no evidence that Joe Biden isn't tied to a chair in a basement somewhere in

Rehobis with duct tape around his mouth as other people are writing his withdrawal letter, right?

It's a very weird thing.

And it's also just as a matter of,

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