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Thank you. This is Lee Fong, journalist and guest host of System Update.

I'm filling in for Glenn, who is out this week. It's been fantastic to guest host the show the last few days. This episode will be doing a few things. First, we'll be talking to Layton Woodhouse. He's an Oakland-based journalist and investigative reporter, filmmaker. We collaborate on our own substacks for a kind of weekly review of politics, both national and local. We'll be talking about

the news of the last week and getting into it. Later, I'll be getting to your questions.

Glenn typically does a Friday mailbag. I'll be getting to your questions. Glenn typically does a Friday mailbag.

I'll be responding to your questions and comments and concerns,

discussing some of what we've reported on this week.

And finally, later in the program, we'll hear from Michael Tracy,

system updates, European correspondent. He's been

gallivanting around the continent this week. He just recently attended a big European Council

Summit. We'll talk about the politics of the U.S., Trump, and Europe, the war in Ukraine,

and other topics. Stay tuned.

Hey, Lee.

Hey, Leighton.

Welcome to System Update.

We often do a podcast together, a video kind of thing, looking at the news, but I'm taking over system of update this week because the

esteemed host, Glenn Greenwald, is off somewhere, God knows where, celebrating his birthday.

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