Trump’s Iran deal BACKFIRES with SHOCKING update

Trump has been declaring victory on his. quote-unquote deal with Iran to avoid, in his words, the whole civilization. dying. But it turns out that the deal is. an unmitigated win for Iran and loss for. the United States. So, here's what we. have to show for Operation Epic Fury. Iran will continue to control the Strait. of Hormuz. Iran gets to charge tolls now. on ships passing through the strait, and. Iran gets to keep its enriched uranium, which is necessary to develop nuclear. weapons, which we were led to believe. was the point of this entire thing. In.

other words, Iran offered up basically. no concessions, and now they'll have. even more money to rebuild. And what do. we have to show for all of our efforts? Well, we've got 13 dead Americans, almost 400 wounded, the largest oil. supply disruption in recorded history, gas prices surging toward $4.30 a gallon. nationally, and we'll have to contend. with an Iranian regime led by another. guy named Khamenei who is reportedly. even more hardline than his father, and. who now has a personal vendetta against. the United States. So, uh.

art of the deal. And according to ABC. News, Donald Trump had the audacity to. call it a quote beautiful thing. I mean, I'm sorry, but I don't see how any human. being, even Donald Trump, could look at. what happened here and not see that we. just got rolled. Think about it. Before. February 28th of this year, the Strait. of Hormuz was an international waterway. Ships passed passed through freely. That. was the standard, it was the baseline. Now, the ceasefire plan includes. provisions that would let Iran charge. tolls on ships using the strait,

reportedly up to $2 million in crypto. That's a fee that did not exist. previously, all because the strait was. considered an international waterway. In. other words, Iran has now converted a. shared global resource into a revenue. stream for itself. Not because they. earned it, but because Trump started a. war, lost the leverage, and folded. And. now he's calling it a win. Here's what Trump actually said when he. was asked about Iran charging tolls on. ships. >> I had a conversation with the president. this morning about all of this. He.

clearly believes that it was his threats. that caused the Iranians to agree to. things that they wouldn't have agreed to. before. He acknowledged that China. played a role here in in in bringing. about this ceasefire agreement. Obviously Pakistan as well. But I I I. asked him about some of the many. unanswered questions here. Iran is saying in their 10-point. proposal that they would maintain. control over the Strait of Hormuz. They're talking about charging a toll of.

$2 million per ship that passes through. it. They didn't have control of the. strait before the war. So this would be. a step back. I asked President Trump if. he's okay with that. If he's okay with. Iran charging a toll. And his answer was. quite stunning. He said maybe it will be. a joint venture. And I said a joint venture between the. US and Iran? And he said yes. He said it's a. beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. Maybe we'll do that. A joint venture. with Iran. The country that we just went.

to war with. That we're still at war. with. The country that killed 13. American service members. The country. that according to the IAEA possesses. over 400 kg of enriched uranium to 60%. purity. That's a nearly 50% increase. since just February. That country. Trump. wants to go into business with them and. split the profits from a toll booth on. the world's most critical oil passage. Sure, why not? And while we're at it. maybe we can launch that cybersecurity. task force with Russia that Trump wanted. so badly. While we're on the topic of.

insane things that should never happen. And look, even setting aside this insane. idea of a joint venture, the damage is. already done. Like the moment Iran. gained control of the strait, they. gained something that they never had. before. If Iran's toll booth policy. stands, it could earn them roughly $500. over over next 5 years. That cash would. allow Iran to not just rebuild its. military multiple times over, but it. could be the key to finally developing. the nuclear weapon that we allegedly. started this war to stop them from.

obtaining. In other words, we went to to. war specifically to stop Iran from. developing a nuke, and the deal that we. came out with could fund them building a. nuke. That's not a victory. That is a. catastrophic historic failure wearing a. mission accomplished banner. Something. that the Republican Party seems quite. adept at doing. And speaking of the. nuclear program, let's be crystal clear. about where things stand here. The Farsi. version of Iran's 10-point ceasefire. plan included the phrase acceptance of. enrichment, but in the English version.

shared with journalists, that phrase was. mysteriously absent. So, Iran is putting. out two different versions of the same. deal. One for their people and one for. ours. And that is the agreement that. Donald Trump is calling a total and. complete victory. So, he's either being. played or he knows what they're doing. and doesn't care. And I genuinely don't. know which one is worse. And by the way, don't take my word on any of this. This. was Fox News's thoughts on the matter. just today. But I will say that the. president demands, we have not reached.

any of those objectives. I have full. confidence that the president is going. to find some way to make this happen, but he said that we want to dismantle. all major nuclear facilities. That has. not happened. The end of. uranium enrichment on the soil, they're. still enriching. The transfer of the enriched Iranian. stockpiles out of Iran, that hasn't. happened. Acceptance of intrusive. international inspections, they're still. not willing to do that. And they have. not suspended their ballistic missiles.

program. They're still firing them off. The stop the production of the. long-range missiles. That's just a few. of them on the president's proposal. The. question is, is the president using this. 2 weeks to give our soldiers a break, a. rest, to see if we can get this. ultimately done. We'll see. Yeah, not great when even the. state TV guys don't know how to spin. this one. And let me be precise about something. here because I don't want to overstate. anything. This is a ceasefire, not a.

final deal. The formal negotiations have. not yet concluded. There is a 2-week. window now. Maybe something better comes. out of it. I genuinely hope so. But. based on what's on the table right now. in front of us, based on the terms that. Iran is claiming and that Donald Trump. is calling workable, this is an L. Donald Trump pulled us out of the JCPOA. in 2018. He called it a horrible. one-sided deal, said Iran would never. get nuclear weapons on his watch, said. that he was the greatest deal-maker in. the history of the world. And so after.

waging a voluntary war that killed. American troops, crashed energy markets, triggered the worst oil supply shocks. since the 1970s, and left Iran in a. stronger strategic position than it than. when they started this war, Donald Trump. wants you to know that it's a big day. for world peace. The emperor has no. clothes, and the American people deserve. to know it. You're watching the No Lie. podcast. Next up are my interviews with. Congressman Ro Khanna and Attorney. General of California, Rob Bonta. No Lie. is sponsored by BetterHelp. Financial. stress affects far more than our bank.

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Thank you for having me. So, a lot to talk about right now, but I. think the first first things first is in. the aftermath of Donald Trump's kind of. unhinged threat of of basically killing. annihilating the entirety of the Iranian. population, which you know, he's. obviously since walking walked back from. the edge on. Can you speak about the. need the call to invoke the 25th. Amendment from Trump's cabinet members? It shouldn't even be debated. He. threatened genocide. He threatened to.

wipe out an entire Iranian people from. the face of the earth. Of course, he. needs to be removed from office. Of. course, Democrats need to take every. possible step either by the invocation. of the 25th Amendment or impeachment to. make sure that he's removed. This is. about fighting for our moral vision of. the country. You know, that there are going to be. Republicans who say this is just how. Trump negotiates. He was never really. going to do it. You know, you Democrats are being too.

sensitive. And in the end, he he got a. deal anyway. So, what would your. reaction to that be? America has never threatened evil. Even. Richard Nixon, who came up with the. madman theory, the unpredictability of a. president, never threatened to. annihilate all of the Vietnamese people. FDR never threatened to wipe out all the. German people. Reagan never threatened. to wipe out all the Russian people. There is something evil about a. president threatening that, saying that. America is indifferent to human life.

And I don't care whether it's a. negotiation technique. It compromises. everything we believe in, which is the. dignity of human life. There are plenty. of other ways to be a bold negotiator. and make credible threats short of. genocide. You know, there when we think about the. 25th Amendment, it doesn't happen unless. his cabinet actually does it. I mean, inherently that is that is how the tool. is exercised. But he's filled his. cabinet with people who are are.

loyalists for him. I mean, you know, that is actually the only qualification. to be a member in good standing of the. Trump cabinet. And so and so how do you. reconcile the impasse that we would be. at where you would need cabinet members. to sign on to this effort, but the. cabinet members are only there because. they are they are undyingly loyal to to. to the president. Well, that's why we need to pursue both. the 25th Amendment and impeachment. I. mean, here's the reality. The. Republicans threw out this 25th. Amendment unfairly against Joe Biden,

who still had all his faculties and. judgment when he was president. And yet. the Democrats, who actually have an. issue of a president who's gone crazy, are not being bold enough to say, "Look, this is the time where we need a 25th. Amendment. This is the time we need an. intervention where you have a president. saying that you may wipe out Iran. What. is he going to say tomorrow? Is he going. to say we could wipe out Cuba? Is he. going to say wipe out Gaza? We need to. have a check on this president. So, my. view is that this is the time where the.

Democrats need to fight. We need to. fight with every tool available, the. 25th Amendment, impeachment, and say. that we're standing up for the moral. integrity of America, for our values. And a lot of the base is upset that they. don't see that passion, that clarity, that fight in the Democrats. They can. count the votes. They know it's an. uphill battle, but they want us to fight. and make sure we're standing up with. every fiber of our being against an. illegal war. And and I completely agree.

And in fact, that has that has been I. think the most important thing to focus. on, this idea of finding Democrats who. are willing to fight, who are willing to. exercise power. I have I have a book. coming out in a in a couple of months. that is all about exercising power when. we have it. I want to play devil's. advocate here though and say and and and. ask you about this idea that, okay, let's say there is an impeachment fight. that actually does boil to the surface. You know, I feel like there's a world where Trump. could look at that and say, "That's. actually exactly what I want because. that can negatively polarize, you know,

that that that can polarize the the. country." And then it can fall we can. have a situation where I get to play the. victim. I get to say that the Democrats. are coming after their favorite. president. And all of those Republicans. who might have been on the fence about. certain things like Nancy Mace and. Lauren Boebert, Thomas Massie will will. suddenly feel like, "Okay, if this is. just going to be the usual D versus our. food fight, then I can, you know, rally. the troops again." Brian, if this was a. 2020, then I would understand your. points. But now you have Tucker Carlson.

and Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for. the 25th Amendment. Now you have his. base having felt betrayed because of his. protecting the Epstein class, because of. his protecting pedophiles, before. because of his starting wars of choice. And you know what I'm hearing from. Democrats? I'm hearing that Marjorie. Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have. issued stronger statements than many. Democrats did. And they are frustrated. that you have bland statements issued in. press releases when the Trump is. threatening genocide. They want us to.

fight. And just because we're pursuing. impeachment or the 25th Amendment. doesn't mean that we're going to forget. the rest of the agenda. We're going to. fight for the working class. We're going. to fight for universal child care, for. expanding Medicare for all. We're going. to fight for a living wage. We're going. to fight for paid family time off. We're. going to fight to tax billionaires. But. you know what we're also going to do? We're going to fight for elite. accountability. We're going to hold. people who violated the law, who think. they don't have to follow the rules, we're going to hold them accountable. Yeah, I think that was perfectly put.

Um, I want to switch topics here now to. Pam Bondi. News has just come out that. Pam Bondi is not planning on here on. attending the sworn deposition on April. 14th, so less than a week from now. Can. I have your reaction to the legality. first and foremost of this move and. whether it feels like the house is going. to settle for Pam Bondi's refusal to. comply. Well, it's illegal. Nancy Mace and I. wrote a letter this morning to Comer. That's what precipitated uh Bondi's. response. Uh and we said that we still.

expect Pam Bondi to come. The subpoena. that Nancy Mace and I drafted, the. motion, said Pam Bondi as an individual. It did not say Pam Bondi in a role as. attorney general. So, we're going to. continue to pursue this. She's going to. appear before the committee. I mean, if. Jim Comer could trace like Captain Ahab, Hillary Clinton, to come uh 20 years. after she was in office, certainly uh. Pam Bondi uh needs to appear. And we're. also going to continue to push for uh. testimony from all the other people in.

the Epstein class implicated. In terms of the the logistics behind. forcing compliance with the subpoena, is. this something that would be voted on in. committee, in which case the fact that. Nancy Mace is on our side, the the the. the accountability side, doesn't bode. well for for uh Pam Bondi's ability to. to to not comply, or is it going to be a. unilateral decision by James Comer to. determine whether or not that subpoena. is valid? No, it will be voted on in committee, and Comer knows that. He knows he.

doesn't have the votes. And then Nancy and I would bring a. subpoena again for Pam Bondi as an. individual. This is just a delay tactic. We'd have to vote for it again. My guess. is we won't even have to vote. They will. find an alternative date for Bondi. Uh. and it's just a uh issue of delaying and. buying her time. But we have the votes, and we also need to vote to subpoena now. Todd Blanched, who's the acting attorney. general, uh to get him to appear. But it. is uh awfully convenient, Brian, that.

the president fires Pam Bondi a week or. two before her she's scheduled to appear. in the Oversight Committee. It just. highlights that there is a cover-up. This is the one of the biggest scandals. in American history, and it's been one. of the biggest cover-ups in American. history. Well, you know, we've spoken. about the my my my next question a few. times, but I think for posterity, it's. worth reiterating here, and that is what. happens in the event that Pam Bondi. decides not to comply when the only. agency that would be tasked with holding. her to account for failing to comply.

with the subpoena would be the very. Department of Justice that we all know. would never lay a finger on Pam Bondi. Well, this is why we can't just as. Democrats say when we win in '26 and. '28, we're going to move on. and move forward. We need to have. accountability, and that accountability. is going to start, of course, with. prosecution of people who actually raped. and abused these young girls on. Epstein's Island and Ranch, but it's. also going to mean accountability for. people like Pam Bondi who. either covered up or if they failed to.

appear in front of a committee, that's. criminal contempt. And. when we have a majority in the house, we. can vote for criminal contempt for Pam. Bondi. So, life is much longer than. Donald Trump. He's soon going to be a. lame duck, and soon people are going to. realize that the Trump umbrella of. protection no longer protects you when. he's no longer in power. What message. would you have for Todd Blanche as he. engages in similar behavior as Pam Bondi.

did, recognizing that Trump isn't going. to be in office forever, and that he's. not going to have the tool, and that. Blanche isn't going to have the tools of. the DOJ at his disposal forever? Well, this is where there's a reckoning. Every person who violated the Epstein. Transparency Act can be prosecuted for. obstruction of justice. If you. hid documents, if you engaged in. redactions, and the next president. should do something immediately, which. is appoint a special counsel to deal. with the Epstein issue, and that special.

counsel should meet with survivors, meet. with survivors' lawyers, Uh, really. oversee to have full transparency, have. all of the files released, no. redactions, uh, and uh, see where there. need to be investigations and. prosecutions. By the way, the Senate. should make this the fight in the new. Attorney General. I know there are many. other issues, but this is the issue that. the American people are outraged by, that a group of rich and powerful people. have gotten away with things that they. can, and we should insist that the new.

Attorney General release all the files. and pursue investigations and. prosecutions. Perfect place to leave. off. Congressman, as always, thanks for. your voice and thanks for taking the. time today. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate you. I'm. joined now by the Attorney General of. California, Rob Bonta. Thanks so much. for joining me. My pleasure, Brian. Great to see you again. So, we've had. some major news as it relates to Trump's. illegal executive order blocking mail-in. voting. Can you talk about what you and. other attorneys general around the. country are doing to prevent this from. taking from taking effect?

Absolutely. In short, when the executive. order came down last week, uh, we immediately started inspecting it. for legal compliance and uh, quickly. concluded that it is not lawful, and so. we brought a lawsuit by the end of the. week, the same week, days later. And so, we have a case filed already in federal. district court, uh, specifically the the. District of Massachusetts. We is 23. attorneys general and Governor Shapiro. in Pennsylvania, and we have taken Trump.

to court after he took this. uh, very desperate and unlawful and. unconstitutional action to try to. require citizenship lists that are used. to filter and potentially block. vote-by-mail ballots from being sent to. eligible voters in the United States of. America. Are you confident that the. courts will move fast enough to. um, to prevent this from taking place if. they rule in your favor?

We feel very confident and you know, we. can never speak for the court. The court. is an independent separate branch of. government, coequal branch of government. who needs to act but based on our prior. uh lawsuit that we had with respect to. Trump's executive order on elections. where. we in in our case, the multi-state as. well as multiple other cases, secured. orders blocking a very unconstitutional. action. We feel we can do the same thing. here. And the way that the executive. order is is crafted and designed, it.

can't be in effect by the June primary. elections. Um the ones coming up. Uh it's June for. for California. So, um but it it potentially could be in. effect by November. So, the. necessity of the court blocking and. stopping this executive order is more. applicable to November than it is to, you know, late spring and summer. elections. So, so there's time for. courts to act. And it is very clear in.

Article 1 of the US Constitution, the. elections clause, which very clearly. states that the time, place, and manner. of elections will be determined by. states and Congress. There's no mention. of the executive branch, no mention of. the president, because the president, by. constitutional design, has no role, zero. role, in determining the time, place, and manner of elections. And this is. This executive order that he issued last. week is a a clear affront and trespass. on that prohibition. And he is clearly. violating the Constitution. And and the.

the law more broadly, including the. independence of the US Postal Service, which is designed to be independent of. uh executive influence, presidential. influence. So, there there's multiple. ways in which. Trump is breaking the law here, violating the Constitution. So, we feel. confident we can secure an order to. block this executive order from ever. being implemented. Okay, so it's it's. clear that Trump as president has no um. ability to have some influence on. elections as as you mentioned, but there.

is kind of the roundabout way, which is. that these Republican governors, Republican attorneys general, Republican. legislatures can can kind of read the. writing on the wall can can heed Trump's. clarion call and say, "Okay, well, even. if his executive order um doesn't stand. in the courts, we still we still got the. message from him." And so, is there any. concern that that notwithstanding. uh um however well Trump's executive. order does in court, that these states.

are are still going to adopt. you know, the the overall message that's. being put forward by by by Trump and. kind of and kind of, you know, doing his. bidding at the state level? I don't see it here that. maybe, but but not the design that's in. the executive order. The executive order. requires a national. a federal citizenship list, and it. requires the action and implementation. by the US Postal Service. States, state.

legislatures, state governors have no. authority over the US Postal Service. Not only is the US Postal Service. independent of the president of the. United States, it's definitely. independent of the states and the state. legislatures and state governors. So, the way that this executive order is. designed, I don't see any way that. states can implement it on their own. You know, you you had listed a few other. um a few other states that were that. were jumping in on this effort with uh. with you in California. Why are there no Republicans who are.

joining in on this effort, recognizing. that, you know, the state of Utah, for. example, is an all mail-in voting state? I mean, Trump himself votes by mail. Uh. and and it's not like the guy doesn't. have a doesn't have a plane that can get. him to Florida whenever he wants to be. able to cast his ballot in person. And. so, a lot of these states rely on the. infrastructure that they have. Republicans also vote by mail. and in. fact, in large part, it was negligible. the difference before before Trump, of. course, uh came in and vilified mail-in. voting, but prior to that, um the the.

difference between who cast ballots, you. know, Democratic or Republican voters, was literally negligible. And so, how. come Republican how come your Republican. counterparts in red states aren't also. standing up to protect the. infrastructure that they've built, um. and the fact that, you know, they have. Republican constituents who also want to. take advantage of the convenience, accuracy, and safety of mail-in voting? It's par for the course for Republican. states, for red states, for Republican. AGs to. take the knee and cave and capitulate.

and allow. the president to run roughshod over. their constituents' rights, their. freedoms, um to take their funding away, and to do nothing. And I've always. believed that they were secretly rooting. for Democratic AGs who are fighting for. all those things, for rights, for. freedoms, for funding, and that they. would um. be able to to benefit from our from our. work. And they were sort of, you know, in with the the metaphor of cyclists, they were drafting behind us.

>> Yeah. and uh benefiting from our work. But, you know, it's. it's them just caving to, you know, the. the the mad king and his conspiracy. theories. And and let's be be clear, widespread voter fraud does not exist. It's only a figment of the imagination. of Trump, of conspiracy theorists, and. crackpots. And the Republican AGs are. are buying into this, you know, wild and crazy belief of of of.

of the president and allowing their. voters to have their right to vote. suppressed and their voters to be. disenfranchised in the process. So, it. and and I say this with with with. disappointment and with hope for better. future and. with knowledge that Democratic AGs and. Republican AGs right now. are are working on a number of cases. together including lawsuits against Meta. and against TikTok. A lawsuit that's in. trial right now going to closing. argument later this week. against Ticketmaster Live Nation. There.

is still some bipartisanship, but not. when it comes to challenging Trump's. attacks on on voting rights, on funding, on rights and freedoms. So, it's very. disappointing that they're not. They They can and they should. But. again, par for the course. Shocking, but. not surprising. Now, you had mentioned. that a lot of these Republican attorney. generals are hoping that that Democrats. succeed. Do you have Have you had any. interaction with your Republican. counterparts, you know, out of the.

public view where they've where they've. expressed as much? Not just on this. mail-in voting executive order, this. illegal executive order, but maybe on on. other issues. I mean, right? Obviously, right now we're contending with threats. of nuclear war with Iran. So, from, you. know, anything from that to the illegal. and unconstitutional executive order. regarding mail-in voting, have you heard. from your Republican counterparts where. they're kind of just, you know, even if. they may not feel comfortable coming out. publicly. against Donald Trump that they're that. they're supportive of your efforts to do.

so? I think they're more likely to share. that information with fellow Republicans. than with. Democrats, you know, across the aisle. But, I have seen. a number of signs supporting what I what. I believe. When when when we interact. with certain Republicans, they have a. different you know, posture and demeanor. and approach than they do publicly. Their Their sort of private demeanor is. cooperative and collaborative, at least.

on the issue that we're working on. And. and and the issues may be limited, but. the ones that come to mind are antitrust. work, you know, holding. corporations who are violating antitrust. law. and disrupting free markets accountable, and also child safety work like like the. the health the mental health of kids on. on social media platforms like Meta and. and TikTok. They're They They're. reasonable. They're collaborative. We've. worked towards a common goal. Um they don't and you know, criticize Trump in those settings and.

nor, you know, do we. Uh we're we're just working on a common. goal together and realize that. um. you know, common ground may be limited. So, let's try to occupy it together. instead of, you know, going quickly to. the area where we might not agree and. and, you know, that could disrupt the. the relationship. But, um I think most. American people, um you know, regardless of of party. affiliation. are good and they're decent and they. want good things and they see decency.

and goodness in others and. it's. obvious, you know, um. painfully obvious that Trump is neither. good nor decent and doesn't have a lot. of factors and I think, you know, the. super majority of the American people. see that in in his personal conduct but. also as reflected in some of his. policies. as as well. And finally, you know, I had just. touched upon the the. um. post or truth that Donald Trump had had. done earlier today about, you know,

basically promising the the annihilation. of the entire civilization of Iran. He. since walked that back and and, you. know, taken taken his two-week two-week. break, I think, as as many people. expected. But, can I have your reaction. to the idea that somebody who campaigned. expressly on no new wars in the Middle. East has not only launched a new war in. the Middle East but taken it so far as. to threaten. nuclear war in that region. And this is.

someone who was complaining about the. the injustice he suffered. He He so. aggrieved by not getting the Nobel Peace. Prize. You know, and nothing Well, I. mean he you know he did get arguably a. better prize and that was the FIFA Peace. Prize. So you can't. you can't write that off. The FIFA Peace Prize. >> They don't they don't just they don't. just give that give that out to anybody. Yes. Yes, he he he received that one on. demand. There was no process nor any. peace. requirements as as part of that peace. prize. But you know this is someone who.

who who wants the adulation. He wants. the prize. He wants his ego fed. He. can't stand that President Obama got it. but he didn't and he he you know. it's not commensurate with his with his. conduct and you know he's showing his. true self and and look he promised on. the campaign trail. no endless wars. He promised release the. Epstein files. He promised he's going to. reduce costs on day one. And he's raised. costs. He has not released the Epstein. files and he has started new wars. And. so he's completely hypocritical sadly as.

expected and it's it's par for the. course for him and you know this this. this bluster and this bluffing about you. know total annihilation and and you know. kind of the the taco Trump talk you know. Trump always chickens out and you know. he he he he goes 100 miles per hour and. then he backs down and then he then he. threatens and dangles the threat again. Um that's what he does but he's he's. he's way over his head here. I think he. thought this was going to be quick, easy. Um he he. he's learning a tough lesson in why.

there are endless wars and he's you know. dragged the United States into one. despite his promises, raised gas prices. in the process and he's suffering uh uh. you know the the the consequences with. respect to his approval ratings but you. know let's let's be real Americans are. dying. Um this is not a war we we need. to be in. This is not a risk set of. risks we need to be taking. And. I think he's trying to get out of it as. soon as he can but he's he's finding how. difficult it is and.

um. you know his his social media posts. seemingly are at escalating levels of, you know, ridiculousness and. inappropriateness. Lunacy, yeah. I. wonder what's going to happen tomorrow. Well, we will, of course, um, keep the. conversation going as soon as we have. any update on the the results or or. first steps of the lawsuit to rein in. Donald Trump's illegal executive order. regarding mail-in voting. I'll I'll be. happy to have you back. So, thank you. for the work you're doing. Thanks for. taking the time today. Of course. Thanks, Brian. Good to see. you. To listen to the audio version of.

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