Welcome to my debut episode. Thank you for joining. It's also the 100th day of the Trump

administration and the first day of the rest of our lives together. Grateful to you for being

part of Next Up, the show will come out now on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You can watch it on YouTube or listen to it on any podcast platform you prefer. This will be a program

that will bring you my best reporting and analysis. Also great guests. Today we have Texas

Senator Ted Cruz, a roundtable conversation that I hope you'll find to be a little bit different

than what you see on cable and elsewhere.

I'm booking some of the smartest people I know today.

Emma Joe Morris and Mark Caputo.

And as always, super interested in trying to tell you what's really going on.

As I said, through my reporting and my analysis and the folks we bring to you.

So grateful to you for being a part of this first episode and

hope you'll join us every Tuesday and Thursday right here. 100th Day is, as people like to point

out, an artificial construct. But there's lots going on in this administration. It has been historic.

And of course, it started well before the president took office from Election Day through the transition.

And people generally see a tipping point from a period where he was active and was dominating

the conversation and getting a lot done. People now, I think, are seeing something different.

And the terrorists are part of it, signal gates part of it. People I talk to every day

can look at this administration as has been true of almost anything connected to Donald Trump

in different ways. And I'm lucky, fortunate. I get to talk every day, literally every day,

including on the weekends, with smart people who think the Trump administration flaws in awe is off to a fast start

and is revolutionizing America and the world in really important and positive ways.

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