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It is Friday, July 26th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, inside the leadership's picks for the Trump assassination attempt task force.

Number two, the Freedom Caucus holds its fire despite unfinished business.

And number three, Brett Guthrie joltz to the top of the NRC leaderboard amid his energy

and commerce run.

Let's get into it.

The top of Punch Bowl News a.m. We have some reporting on who

will be on the task force to investigate Donald Trump's, the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

Now, listen, this task force was created by Congress, by the House of Representatives, rather, just a couple days ago.

I believe the vote was 418 to 0. You can't get 418 people to vote that the sky is blue. So this is

probably a, this is a pretty bipartisan thing. And let me just start with this. The idea that

Johnson, Mike Johnson, the speaker, and Hakeem Jeffries,

the House Minority Leader had, was basically that they were not going to put dopes on this panel

effectively. I wish I could put it in a more, in in a more serious manner, but they, they, Mike Johnson was not going to put people who are media hungry and want to get on TV and want to just clown around and make score political points of this panel.

Now, we don't know if they, they might try to score political

points, right? They might, even the people he puts on might try to score political points.

But Johnson is not going, basically they have a non-aggression act here, which is they're going

going to put serious people on this panel. So let's talk about that.

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