From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take.

I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C.

It is Monday, December 1st. This is obviously a difficult, awful tragedy that struck the nation's capital right before the holidays.

And there's a lot of complicated narratives sort of intertwined here.

So we're going to try and untangle them, as it were.

Before we jump into today's story at the risk of cheapening the seriousness of what we're about to cover,

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All right. With that, I'm going to send it over to John for today's main story and I'll be back

for my take.

Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

We're able to take some time off to relax and refresh and come into the final month of 2025. I'll have today's question

for you after the my take section of the podcast. In the meantime, here are your quick hits for today.

First up, President Donald Trump said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be

considered closed, raising the prospect of potential U.S. military action.

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