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Morning and glory and evening, Grace, America.

I'm Hugh, welcome to the Big Weekend Pod.

We have some of our regulars for the pod this week.

John Ellis from news items, the absolutely

indispensable morning newsletter that replaces basically every other newspaper, save money, just

read John Ellis's news items every day. Matt Contennetti is along to go over the week in review,

and there's six, seven big stories that range from the very important, the upcoming summit between President

Trump and General Secretary Xi in South Korea, to the very silly, the hue and cry over a

remodel job of the East Wing, which I guarantee you no one is ever going to miss, and the ballroom

will be most definitely welcome. And we'll have Eli Lake and Senator John Kennedy is joining

me. Got a brand new book out, How to Test Negative for Stupid and why Washington never will.

How to Test Negative for Stupid is a fabulous book. And Senator Kennedy gives all the impression

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