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Morning, Gloria, and eating grace America. Welcome to Big Weekend Pod, and it could be an explosive weekend.

At least I'm going to get you prepared for that by talking with our regular guest, John Ellis of news items.

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John will go over some of the stories you might have missed this week.

Then we have our heavyweight line up right in the middle of the, what you call,

murderers roll with the Yankees.

We got Eli Lake, Matt Continentie, Ben Dominic.

And we'll be talking primarily, if not exclusively, about Iran, because this is the weekend that matters.

Now, I know you've heard me say that before, but it really does come down to the American

people are watching and they're wondering, what's going on? And they trust the president

on this. And we none of us have classified information unless we're in the government. And if people

are talking, they don't know. And if people

don't know, they tend to speculate. And I don't speculate about what the conditions on the ground are

in Iran. But I can absolutely can speculate about what will be the reactions to various

deals if they come out and to the resumption of combat operations, if that's what we see.

We do know that the president is not going to Don Jr.'s wedding, because you've got to be at the

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