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Hey, stay tuned listeners. It's Wednesday evening and I'm exhausted as I'm sure many of you

are. I'm sitting in an office at CNN with my producer, Kat. Earlier today, we taped a

whole episode with former Obama strategist David Axelrod about Tuesday's elections, which

is what everyone was talking about and foremost on everyone's minds. You'll hear that conversation

in a minute and I think it's pretty good. That interview was taped before the news

broke about the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Here's a couple of

very quick thoughts on that and you'll hear more of what I have to say in a different place.

But for now, as I tweeted today, I think it's a dangerous time. I think we have to be

very worried about a panicked, upset, obstruction-minded president who just got, even though he doesn't

use this word, shellacked any elections. The House has changed party. The Mueller investigation

proceeds to pace. There's a lot of indication that other indictments are coming down. There's

a lot of indication that other people close to Donald Trump may be in the crosshairs

and Donald Trump does what he always does, just like when he fired Jim Comey. Both out

of anger and out of self-preservation, he takes dramatic action. And we're at a particular

time now during the transition phase between the current makeup of Congress and the next

makeup of Congress in January, during which time a, an acting, and in many ways, unaccountable

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