Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger this week joined by Kevin Williamson and one David French.

We will talk about the latest Hill leadership fights and I don't know why anyone should care what it says about either party perhaps.

Of course Donald Trump announcing for president in 2024 this week down in Mar-a-Lago and the missile strike in Poland.

What we know what we don't and where our foreign policy between the Russia and Ukraine conflict goes from here.

Let's dive right in. Kevin, if you just fell into a coma for a week and totally missed all of the Hill squabbling fights over McConnell versus Scott and Will McCarthy pull it out and with how many votes and what's Nancy Pelosi going to do?

Would you be any worse off in life? Well, actually that's not far from where I am in terms of my political news reading Republican leadership fights are right near the bottom.

So I'm sort of expecting you to carry this part of the podcast in some ways.

But you're the perfect person to ask then you don't seem to care why should anyone else.

I'm very much.

The Rick Scott versus mission McConnell thing is kind of.

It's kind of the whole conflict in the Republican party and miniature in some ways that you've got you know McConnell who's.

This more sort of old fashioned traditional sensible politician and Rick Scott who kind of bounces all over the place who used to be kind of an old fashioned sensible politician.

I maintain that he was a really, really good governor of Florida and who kind of went crazy when he became a more national figure as people sometimes do.

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David, I think what I find interesting about the McConnell versus Rick Scott fight and let me back up into a little table setting here.

So Mitch McConnell, the minority leader of the Republican party and really the highest ranking Republican in the party at this point.

Right spent bagillions of dollars raised bagillions of dollars spent bagillions of dollars in the midterm elections propping up Senate candidates that he then would publicly criticize not by name but saying that.

While you know house races might rise and fall on a wave Senate races were very much you know more idiosyncratic and candidate quality mattered.

I can't it quality line stuck in the crawl of some people yeah Rick Scott former governor of Florida senator from Florida was elected by his fellow Republican senators to run the national Republican senatorial committee.

And you know, I'm saying one term post you serve one cycle two years. And you inherit some staff but you also get to hire like basically all of your campaign staff folks.

You raise a ton of money into it you have a lot of power of which races to fund and how much to fund and which pollsters to use and all those things.

And boy did Rick Scott and Rick Scott basically use it as a post to antagonize Mitch McConnell.

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