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Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know

For a change because finally I got a new guest

Dana Milbank from the Washington Post not not one of my normal repeat guests like Norm Ornstein or Daniel Lithuick who are

Okay, they're great too

Very authoritative and brilliant both Norman and Dahlia. So this is a great one today as usual

See that's right as usual. I'm gonna say it

Because when I open the show with we've got a great one today, you know for a change

That's a conceit

You see because it's cheeky

And what it's really saying is that all of these are great. Okay. This is the first time I've pulled back the curtain

My we've got a great one today for a change

Conceit and I hope that doesn't ruin the joke for you, which is always the first joke in each podcast

But you know what I think that needlessly

Explicating that joke makes it even funnier and I'm not doing it again. This is the first and only time so those of you

Who've just had the privilege and benefit of my over explaining the joke

Don't share that with anyone. They'll be my little gift for you

So Dana Milbank has covered Congress for decades now and I've been fascinated in a poll

By what has and is happening in in the house

This week the absolute worst people in the house being rewarded precisely for being the worst people getting

Prime committee assignments a marjorie Taylor Greene

Who in the last Congress who stripped of her committee assignments because of

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