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All right, on with a show. Before we get started today, I want to note this conversation

took place on Sunday, and this story is moving fast. Okay? On with the show.

At one point during our conversation on Sunday, attorney,

Uncle Shkudari paused to watch the news. I'm just watching CNN in the background here,

and apparently they have asked Cohen's lawyer about about the federal campaign and finance

play others. You want to listen to this real quick? Give me a second. On Thursday night,

Americans heard that for the first time ever, a president had been indicted on criminal charges,

but the indictment is under seal. And that means right now, we're in a weird kind of history

making limo. It has created this information vacuum where between Thursday,

evening and Tuesday afternoon, the country is operating kind of partially in the dark, right?

And frankly, I'm really not in love with it. It's not as though anybody would be interested,

right? Exactly. Exactly. It's only now the most important and consequential criminal case in

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