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So yesterday I interviewed Ken Martin, the DNC chair, and for scheduling reasons, we had originally planned on just keeping it on our YouTube channel.

But because the interview turned out to be much spicier than we had anticipated. We're dropping it here for all of you.

Just to set up what happened, Ken reached out last week asking if he could have a chance to respond to

criticism coming from some of us here at Crooked about the DNC's finances after it was reported

that the Democratic National Committee ended March with $13.9 million in cash,

$18.3 million in debt for a total of negative $4.4 million.

The RNC, by contrast, has $116.7 million in cash with no debt. Ken had also mentioned our past criticism of

his decision not to release the full 200-page report that the DNC had conducted on what went wrong

in the 2024 election, which he had promised to do when he ran for DNC chair, and again,

when he sat down with me last August.

We, of course, said, sure, we'd love to have him on and hash it out, so we did.

And I'll just say, the reason I spent so much time asking him about the report, also known as the

2024 autopsy, is not because I want to relitigate every miserable detail of that election or figure

out who to blame. It's because of this. Ken and the DNC supposedly commissioned a massive project

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