This is Patrick from Tempe Arizona, recording at the Internet, TV and radio exhibit at the

New ZM in Washington, D.C. as part of my first visit to the East Coast.

This podcast was recorded at 1110 am on Thursday, November 8th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

Enjoy the show.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

Jeff Sessions has been forced out of his job as Attorney General, while his replacement

undermined the Russian investigation and were going to dive deep on state legislatures

and ballot measures, all the things we haven't talked about yet that happened on Tuesday.

I'm Tamara Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Scott Detreau, I cover Congress.

I'm Kerry Johnson, I cover the Justice Department.

And I'm feeling you a national security editor.

All right, guys.

It did not take long.

He kind of knew that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was beleaguered and that the president regularly

berated him and that he probably was not going to last long after the midterms.

But wow, that happened fast.

You know, I've been around long enough to know that sometimes things like that even happen

on election night.

So I was prepared with a mug of tea just in case.

And in fact, things didn't go down with Jeff Sessions until the following day.

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