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Hurry because there's no safe like SimplySafe. Welcome to Pot Save America. I'm Dan Pfeiffer. And I'm Alex Wagner. John is off this week. On today's show, Grand Platner's

suspenses campaign against Susan Collins, and now there's a very crowded, very chaotic race to succeed

him. The war in Iran appears to be starting back up again, even though Donald Trump was

confused about the name of the country he's attacking. That's a real thing. Then former

North Carolina governor, Roy Cooper, talks me about the campaign for Senate. Alex, thanks for being

here today and replacing John. It's a pleasure, although, I mean, we all miss John.

Whenever he's away, crazy shit happens, Stan.

It's true.

He spends his vacations in the middle of online fiascos.

Let's either here nor there.

Okay.

Let's start with the Platner News.

Two long days after Politico broke the story that Platner had allegedly raped a former girlfriend,

Plattner posted an 11-minute video on Wednesday evening saying he would file the formal paperwork

to withdraw his name from the ballot, but also sharing a lot of other thoughts, too.

Let's take a listen.

I think as many of you know, over the past couple days, I have faced some very serious allegations,

and I just want to make it clear. This is all false.

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