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We've got the votes and screw the rest of you.

I'm Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all the bombshells.

Can you catch people's eyes?

Hello and welcome to Words Matter. I'm Norm Ornstein.

Every week, Kavita Patel and I talk about working issues facing the country.

This week, Kavita is off in Spain for a conference.

And so we thought about who could we get who would be a spectacular replacement for Kavita?

And both of us immediately settled on the leader of the Nerd Avengers, of which I am a proud part, the spectacular Mary Trope.

Norm, that's incredibly sweet. First of all, it's wonderful to see you.

I'm totally honored to be here and let's face it, Kavita is irreplaceable, but I'll do my best.

You are irreplaceable as well.

So there's a lot to talk about, Mary, but there are a couple of topics that I thought we ought to go over.

One is, I think we'll do this second, the farce of a hearing yesterday in the house which they brought in there to prize whistleblowers who did not do a particularly good job, but it was also farcical in other ways.

And that included Marjorie Taylor Greene showing in a house hearing pornographic pictures of Hunter Biden, and it turned out she also sent them out in the newsletter to her constituents and others.

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