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Welcome to Potsayev America, I'm John Favreau.

I'm Dan Fifer.

On Today's show, Donald Trump sees winning the presidency as his best chance to stay out

of jail.

Rupert Murdoch turns on Ron DeSantis and other Republican presidential candidates are

now paying voters for the chance to get on the debate stage.

Then Dan talks with pro-choice Ohio's Kelly Copeland about the effort to enshrine abortion

access into Ohio's constitution.

But first, Congress is back in session after another well-deserved break, and Maga Republicans

are doing their best to make Democrats point that they're a gang of culture war-obsessed

weirdos who can't govern.

The House is trying to pass a traditionally bipartisan defense bill that funds the military,

but the Freedom Caucus is threatening to tank it unless they can stop the military from

trying to recruit more diverse service members and from offering service members access

to health care if they're trans or need an abortion.

Meanwhile, over in the Senate, Alabama's Tommy Tuberville has been single-handedly holding

up more than 250 military promotions in order to stop the Pentagon from providing troops

abortion access.

He's also upset that the Pentagon is trying to get white nationalists out of the military,

which led to a few additional questions for the senator.

Here's how it all went.

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