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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the boats and screw the rest of you.

And Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments,

you know, with all the bombshells, didn't catch people's eyes. Hello and welcome to Words Matter from the DSR network. Each week Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we come out of one election cycle into another and it just seems like a never-ending frying pan of

halaciousness norm and I have to say this was a this was a week today I we're going to try to do our best

for listeners to touch on kind of the main events of the week.

And there were many, I think, between the Supreme Court

and oral arguments and several important cases as well as the Trump trial

underway in New York in the lower Manhattan District Court as, as well as, I would say, a tear gas in Atlanta, a

scattering, the cancellation of the USC commencement ceremony entirely,

protests at Columbia University,

amongst other universities, kind of nationwide,

you know, unrest, as I would call it,

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