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Hello and welcome to a special edition of the podcast.

I'm David Rothkoff, your host, and we are joined today by the junior senator from Delaware,

Chris Coons. Chris Coons has served in the Senate since 2010. He's chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, serves on the Appropriations Committee,

he serves on the Foreign Relations Committee. We're going to talk about a variety of different kinds of things.

We'll start with the news.

Welcome, Senator.

Great to be on with you, David.

Thank you.

A pleasure to have you with us.

We seem to be approaching something like progress on the

Ukraine to Israel and Taiwan aid packages. It's not exactly a transparent process.

How does it appear to you now?

Well, I'm hugely encouraged that Speaker Johnson

has finally come out as a Reagan Republican, someone who actually is willing to

stand up and fight for investment in Ukraine's defense, and that he's given a

whole series of press interviews in the last day saying that he's

willing to put his speaker ship at risk and face down the freedom caucus in order to try and pass the Senate supplemental.

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