Hello and welcome to How to win 2024. It's Thursday afternoon on August 1st.

I'm Jennifer Paul Mary and I'm here with my co-pilot Claire McCaskell.

Hi Claire.

Hey it's so much more fun now.

Isn't it? Hey, it's so much more fun now.

Isn't it? I mean, I just feel like there's so much lightness in my voice.

I mean, true confession, true confession, I would dread this moment in the week a few weeks ago, oh my god I've got to talk about it and I'm so

depressed and now it's like man springing my step we are hitting on all cylinders. I haven't felt this good since you know the same time in

2008 and it feels it's not just oh you feel good for the vice president. It's like you're proud of

President Biden for making this possible. Yes. You feel good about the

Democrats because our leader had a problem and he dealt with it in like the most generous

courageous way possible and it just it does all feels great.

Speaking of our leader let's give him some props right now for an amazing development that happened today that is 100%

Joe Biden.

Yeah, it's that three Americans and one permanent U.S. resident were among those freed

from Russian captivity today and one of the biggest prisoner

exchanges since the Cold War.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerschovich and former Marine Paul Wheeling are among the prisoners

released and it's yeah it's such great news we send our best of them. wheel in are among the prisoners released.

And it's, yeah, it's such great news.

We send our best of them and their families, their loved ones.

And Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor,

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