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Today on the Playbook podcast, two of the biggest war skeptics in Donald Trump's cabinet

take the stage. How will they speak about Iran? We've got Mark Wayne Mullen Trump's pick to replace

Kristy Nome at DHS, having his confirmation hearing today too. We'll get into that. And last night

in Illinois, how did APEC fare in the big democratic night of primaries? Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday, March 18th.

Dasha, let's talk about Illinois, because I know that you love elections.

I love elections. I love elections. Where should we start?

Well, primary day yesterday in Illinois, I'm sure our listeners now, on a sort of personality level, some of the big names who were vying to get into Congress

or back into Congress did not achieve it.

And we should say that Kat Abragozala, who was defeated in the nomination in Illinois' ninth congressional

district, Jesse Jackson Jr.'s comeback bid also failed.

And so we're not going to get the sort of celebrity vibe results that some people in the media might have hoped for.

There goes Oprah's bid for a president.

Exactly, exactly.

But there was a much bigger picture stuff happening.

Lots of talk before these primaries about the influence of APEC, the pro-Israel lobby group and whether they still hold this way that they've long held, given what's

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