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Thank you very much for your support. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sergeant.

Over the weekend, a CNN interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr went viral

because in it Barr performed one of the most spectacular capitulations to Donald Trump that we've seen from any Republican.

Barr admitted that Trump probably talked privately about executing rivals as president,

but shrugged it off and meekly said nothing as CNN rivals as

CNN's Caitlin Collins quoted from a rant from Trump

that belittled bar in mercilessly humiliating terms.

One person who immediately saw the larger importance of this is Amanda Carpenter,

the prominent Never Trumper and an editor of Protect Democracy, who tweeted that it

perfectly captures some essential truths about this fall's election.

So we invited Carpenter on the show to discuss what this saga says about the GOP and its broader

capitulation to MAGA.

Welcome, Amanda.

Hey Greg, thanks for having me.

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