Hi, we are Brandon and Kristen Costa currently at the Winter Beer Dabler in St. Paul, Minnesota

Which is a beer festival outdoors in February and it's snowing this podcast was recorded at winter beer

Dabler is a great name. It is two oh five Eastern on Thursday March 1st, which happens to be I'll say it my half birthday

Happy half birthday. Thank you. Things may have changed by the time you listen to it

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Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast here with our weekly roundup of political news guns are still

Dominating Washington, but Congress is coming gone this week without taking any major steps toward passing anything

President Trump took the gun debate and turned it on its head yesterday with another made for TV meeting where he agreed with

Democrats more than Republicans and at the end of this week

President Trump finds himself more isolated than ever one of his closest and most trusted aides

Hope Hicks is stepping down and his son and law Jared Kushner has lost his top secret security clearance

I'm Scott Detro. I cover Congress for NPR. I'm Scott horse. Thank you over the way house. I must my college political reporter and I'm Ron

Elving editor correspondent. How's everybody doing? Can I just say I'm very excited to be in a podcast with two scots today?

Scott squared. I've never been in a podcast with two scots before. That's true. Yeah, because you you had left before the two-scot era really fully began

Exactly. This is quite novel for me. So I just like to say I feel very honored. All right

So this was yet another one of those weeks that I've started to think of is like we didn't start the fire weeks

Well, there's so many different stories you could just kind of round the whole soling out if you wanted to but the main theme this week as it was last week

Was guns we've been talking a lot lately in the podcast about guns and about the moment we're in after the shooting at Marjorie

Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida

Whether there's something different going on that might actually lead to policy changes or not and this week felt a bit more like it was in the

Or not category at least in Congress, but on the other hand, there was one of those off-script white house meetings with Trump and lawmakers

Or once again at least in that meeting and that is something we will talk about Trump sounded more like a Democrat than a Republican

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