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I'm here with Nick Hausman, as always.

We got a lot to get to today.

But we got to start.

The Supreme Court has an opening.

Liberal Justice, Stephen Breyer, has announced his attention to retire,

and there is nothing. And I mean absolutely nothing that political pundits and journalists and

personalities love talking about more than an opening on the Supreme Court. So, you know, strap on your Supreme Court, helmets, strap into your Supreme Court,

safety chambers, things are about to get live.

Nick, what are your initial readings on this thing?

Well, here's what's interesting because the Republicans tend to use this as a big lightning rod

to get out the vote, get people really

motivated. I don't think that this does anything for the Democrats in terms of the midterms

or even the presidential election in 2024, does it? Well, I'll tell you this, that there's no

into the articles this morning that are saying that it's a game changer. It's going to change

absolutely everything. And, oh, this saying that it's a game changer. It's going to change absolutely everything.

And oh, this is, it's, so we were talking before, and I used a term, and I wanted to find it for the

audience very quickly, Beltway Brain. And Beltway Brain is the idea that everybody within

Washington, D.C., within the Beltway, becomes totally and irreparably

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