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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Friday, June 14th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, why Trump and Congress are such an odd fit. Number two, news on the tech policy front, top House Republican says they aren't interested

in regulating AI. And number three, the latest from the tally. New House leaders aren't being used

in political ads. All right, Jake, let's get to it.

When Donald Trump goes anywhere, everybody kind of stops and takes stock. He was on Capitol Hill

yesterday, a big moment for us and for members of Congress. And kind of unsurprisingly, a lot of

things were happening in his wake.

Things were happening. Welcome back, Anna. Things are always happening with Donald Trump. And listen, we don't, you know, we, we, we, because our focus is so, is so intent and so squarely on the hill, we don't have somebody on the campaign trail, right? We don't have somebody who's

following Donald Trump all the time. We follow him as it relates to the Hill, as it relates to his

relationship with members of Congress, his legislative ideas and thoughts. And when he came,

when he, when he comes to the Hill, and this is only his first time since January 6th,

um, that we know of. I mean, I guess he could have come on a tour or something and we could

have missed him, but, um, no, this is his first time. And it was a, um, a dozy, uh, for the most

part. But listen, Brez made, I think Breres conceived of this idea, and I think it's so

true. There's the Donald Trump that members see every day, which is this guy who commands

large audiences, maybe not as large as he thinks, but still relatively large. And then there's the

the Donald Trump in person. And I mean, listen, yesterday, um, we saw,

we had a great example of that in this Milwaukee episode. Now, Donald Trump did say, full stop,

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