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Welcome back everyone, it's another damage report. I'm still the same John Iterole and I'm actually

flying solo today. But I think I'm feeling a little bit better than yesterday. I've sort of come

to grips a little bit with the state of the Supreme Court that we're likely to be stuck with for the

rest of my career in media. And so while there could still be challenges to that, there's a lot of

other news to get to. And so I am reinvigorated to pursue the actual news that we should be focusing

on once again. And we've got a lot for you, not only breaking political news, another big mix up

in Donald Trump's, maybe not inner circle, but medium circle at the very least. We've got an update

on Trump's trade war. We've got, let's see, him too. Did you know the next punch against the

MeToo movement has come out, although not necessarily consensually in terms of its new mascot,

we're going to be breaking that down in some of the humor that's resulted from it. And it's also

a big show because we have two absolutely awesome guests that are becoming on a little bit later.

The first is someone we've been trying to get for a couple of months now. This is Wesley Bell

who is likely to be the next DA for St. Louis County. That is the county that of course

includes Ferguson. He is a strong progressive. He's got a great platform that we're going to be

breaking down. And we're going to talk a little bit about how criminal justice reform can actually

work when you win elections like he is apparently destined to win in just a few weeks. And then later on

we in the show we have Jose Antonio Vargas going to be joining us. He has an author who has written

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