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Hello and welcome to the Punch Bull News Readback Podcast.

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen.

Today, my guest is Jake Sherman, one of our co-founders here at Punch Bull News, and he's here to talk about President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress, where Jake had a great seat to the action in the House Gallery.

Jake, how you doing? I am wonderful, Max.

How are you? I'm great. It's good to have you on the pod. Always a popular guest. Of course,

you host the Daily Punch. I host the Daily Punch, which records about 4.45 in the morning.

It is almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon. So it's a decidedly different time.

Things are different here. Things are different here. But we have the same great content.

And I want to hear about your experience in Trump speech. Obviously, the headlines focused on

Al Green, Democrat of Texas, got up and was heckling Donald Trump. When you were there in the gallery,

talk me through what you saw. Was there a buildup to it? What was the reaction during and then

after? It was an uncomfortable moment. And let's preface this by saying, Max, that there are,

there have been disruptions in during the states of the union. This wasn't

an official state of the union. It was addressed to Congress. It's effectively a state of the union.

There have been disruptions since the Obama years when Joe Wilson famously yelled, you lie at

Obama over some of his health care plans. But that was a one-off comment.

This was, this was Al Green in a sustained effort to disrupt the president's speech. And Mike Johnson, he made his point. And Mike, I think most people

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