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He has traded more in stocks and bonds than the stocks. Than the total value of all the stocks and bonds created. by every member of Congress. It's just incredible. If I were Republican candidate or a politician, I would just be irate at the way he steamroll at them. He's making out like a bandit. His net worth is reliably calculated, as we know by Forbes in 2021. He was about $2.4 billion 2024.

He had managed to get that up to $4.3 billion. And right now, Forbes puts on $6.1 billion. Nobody in elected office has ever seen their net worth go up by such an amount. in such a short time. To me. I'm back to you are back. We are all so delighted to see you. We are all so devastated by the loss of your of your mum.

And just so happy that you were back with us. Well. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I've had such incredible notes from people. It's really been very moving. You know, we we chatter out into the airwaves. about what we think is going on, and it's so nice to get such. touching responses from people. And you realize this is something everybody goes. through, the death of a parent and or hopefully if the order of things, because of course,

a lot of people have written to me who've suffered the terrible death. of a child, which is, you know, just god awful to think about. But this is normally one of the things that we all go through, and it's just a devastating experience. So enormously bid up by by comments from people. And one person said that this background, which is my background. and my father's study in in Yorkshire, in the UK, it's a bit. like a check off play and you're expecting someone to come through the door.

So I will try. By the end of this podcast, I should actually summon my father in. so he can make an appearance, but I should have someone make an appearance. Hopefully that's the only feature of a check of play. Yes. I'm not planning. There's I'm not planning to have any scene with a gun. Although I did actually, funnily enough, I asked. I asked a friend the other day who was talking about a relative. they have who's depressed, and I said, do they have access to guns?

And he said, Everybody in America has access to guns, which was such a sobering response. But nevertheless, I'm looking forward to coming back this weekend. But what am I coming back to? A president who seems to have lost all perspective? I mean, he you know, we've always said government of one, but this feels like. corruption on the most or grift on the most spectacular scale. I think it watching from afar, it feels as if people have been very,

very slow to understand. quite how devastatingly corrupt this is. Am I wrong or am I missing something? Oh, no. I think you're absolutely right. Absolutely. Well, and you understand more than anyone the timeline of things like this. So can you take us through the timeline? Because it's just. It's crazy.

I mean, I feel we should do sort of those that sort of funny way sound effect music. because this actually starts in 2015 and it starts in 2015, when Donald Trump. first refused to publish his tax returns, which. until then, every president and every candidate for the presidency. had routinely published since, of all people, Richard Nixon. So 2015, Donald Trump refused to publish his tax returns.

2016 he did the same. 2017 2018 we all remember talking about it. And in 2019, there was a partial leak of those tax returns. And as you will remember, they were pretty jaw dropping. They showed how little tax he had paid they should. Ways that he had managed his tax burden is one way to put it. And there it seemed to rest. Back in 2022, somebody was actually arrested.

for this leak and he had been a contractor for the IRS, and he had absolutely. broken the rules to get access to these tax returns. And he admitted that he had broken the rules, and that person. actually is still in prison for what he did. He also he broke privacy laws, which, you know, quite rightly, protects. people like you or me from having our tax returns shown to the world. But these were the tax returns of somebody.

that we all thought we were going to see. And you might have thought that it would have died there. But at the beginning of this year, Donald Trump. started a very daring court case. in which he sued the IRS. as a private person for $10 billion, saying he had been irreparably damaged by the leak of his tax returns. Now, you might say, what damage did he was done to him? He's back being president. He's richer than ever.

But that didn't stop him suing. And. this case meant that Donald. Trump, the private person, was suing Donald Trump, the president. That is absolutely crazy. And it went into a court in the south of Florida where. it was given, as these things were given by random. drawing and federal courts to an Obama appointed judge. And she quite rightly said, how exactly does this work? And asked for briefings on how it was possible for the private person.

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with Honey Love. Because this is like looking in a fairground mirror. This is someone essentially suing himself, suing his own government. Government of one. His own IRS. Yes. I mean, you can't make it up, cannot make this stuff, can't make this up. And who represents the government when the government is is sued? The government is represented by the Department of Justice. because the act as the government's lawyer.

Pretty simple, pretty normal. That means that it's effectively under the control of the attorney general. But the acting attorney general right now is Todd Blanche, and he was drawn to Trump's personal lawyer. So wrapped inside this conflict of interest is another crazy. conflict of interest. All that conflict of interest, however, came screeching. to a new on Monday when the Department of Justice,

acting on behalf of the IRS, said that they were going to withdraw the case. with the consent of Donald Trump, the aggrieved party. And there was what they said was a settlement. And I'm saying they said it was a settlement. because we have to talk about this as well, about whether it was a settlement. But in this deal, they said they were setting up a fund. with $1.7 billion of taxpayer money, and it would go to people.

that they described as victims of weaponized justice. Now, that was Monday, and we are still talking about this on Friday. And in fact, it has only got bigger because when it came down on Monday, we at The Daily Beast absolutely covered it. And you know, we were going hammer and tongs at and are brilliant. David Rothkopf wrote an absolutely searing condemnation of it. But let's just be honest, it has taken. it has been a slow burn because I think it is so jaw dropping.

There's $1.7 billion is available to people. who include the worst of the worst of the January, the sixth insurrectionist people who beat cops, people who stormed the Capitol. It's also available to people like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, who went to jail for defying Congress, and who knows who else that's available to. In fact, there is a rush of MAGA types saying we are going to apply.

The names get crazier by the day. One of them is oe n the MAGA news, and I use that word very loosely, news Network. And there's even a Republican representative. called anti-choice who said he's all in favor of this fund. If he was asked to vote on it, he would he would vote for it. And then he was asked any reason. for that and said, yeah, I'm going to put I might put in for it myself. So it's just this jaw dropping scale.

has only become apparent from Monday. It has grown on Tuesday. It turned out that included a secret, basically. pardon for any tax offenses. that Trump, his family and their companies might have committed. And who knows if they did, because they also ended an audit into his taxes. So as this week has gone on to adapt, it has got more and more obvious quite how jaw dropping this is. And finally on Thursday, it exploded into the open in Congress.

because Republican senators mate Todd Blanch and they berated him. They did saw a private lunch, but 25 of them, that's almost. half of the Republican senators expressed their discontent at what had gone on. And some of them came out and said in public, and that has really. set this off as an explosive explosion inside the Republican world. Well, it's hard to imagine that any sitting.

Republican who's up for reelection in the midterms. So November this year thinks that this can be a good idea. Just setting aside the hypocrisy, the insanity of it all. How is this a vote getter for Republicans? We know that people are anxious about Ice. We know that the war in Iran is unpopular. And again, Trump decided to do the war without Congress is approval, which you should have.

And they've now ridden roughshod through the 60 day deadline. by which Congress is supposed to ratify such a decision. We have Ice. We have the chaos in America, especially the economy and people feeling prices are high, gas prices at the pump because of a war nobody understands and nobody wanted. How could this possibly be a vote winner. for Republican Congress people? Senators, candidates?

I mean, I just don't understand how this is anything other than. than the president doing a. grab that is terrible for his party. And clearly he just doesn't give a F. You ever realize how many customers slip. through the cracks, missed calls, follow ups that never happen. It adds up fast. That's why today's episode is brought to you by quo, spelled Q, u o.

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It's rare that I find myself. quoting the words of Mitch McConnell, but he actually summed it up pretty well. He said it's either utterly stupid or morally wrong. Take your pick. And Thom Tillis, the senator from Republican senator from North. Carolina, described it as stupid on stilts. and a payout pot for punks. Both of those people, notably, I should say, are leaving the Senate.

But but Thom Tillis said it's time for people who are still going to be. It's time for the other Republicans to come out and see it in public. And they have taken some measure of revenge. And I think this is only this is going to become part of the story as well. The Republican senators were going to vote on a finance bill. that would have moved forward, funding for for Ice.

and some of the things that Trump sees us, his priorities. And they simply said, do you know what? We're not voting on this anymore. And off they went and not back until they're not back until June. There are members of the House, among them Brian Fitzpatrick, who represents. a purple district, is doing it a favor. It actually voted for Harris last time. It's a suburb, suburban, part of Philly. He has said that he is determined to stop this, and he will do anything. he can to.

And there are going to be more and more people coming out, because the members of the House have also been in D.C. this week, so they haven't actually come face to face with any of the people they represent. And this is just crazy. There is nothing that makes that makes people say, I want to give 1.7 billion to people who literally include criminals. Yeah, I mean, I've seen I think Senator Whitehouse from Rhode. Island called it a cop beating fund.

I mean, it's quite breathtaking. And certainly when I was talking to Michael Wolff yesterday, he said Trump. assumes now he's going to get heavily beaten in the midterms. And so he's doing a cash grab while he can. But but if I were a Republican, I would be just gobsmacked by the derision. with which he appears to hold the entire Republican House. I mean, the Congress, the House, the Senate, all of it. I mean, it's just he makes decisions without them.

He and the minute and it's all very well for Tom Tillis to to say that now, he was very vigorous during the hearings, obviously. with Kristi Noem, but he was hardly. a vociferous critic of Trump when he was actually in office. And it wasn't clear he decided to leave yet. So. I applaud him. I applaud him, you know, trying to coax or cajole. or bully other other Republicans into criticizing Trump.

But it's a bit rich hearing from him at this point. Well, I think there are good people then people and Democrats are going to be, you know, going after excite at that point of. you might welcome the sinner who repents and all that sort of thing. But why wasn't this stopped? Why was if I did anybody, you know, think. when the when Trump sued for $10 billion,

why did nobody speak out then. It's it's it's the it's certainly. people like Thom Tillis are definitely leaked to the party on this. Having said that, the reason to speak out. no is the elections are much closer. That's you know, that that is that is absolutely going to focus people's minds. You can attack them as hypocrites. Absolutely. And Democrats absolutely will. But there is nothing that's going to focus their minds.

more than the imminent prospect of a, you know, a blue wave sweeping over them. It's particularly ironic, given. how Donald Trump used to go after Nancy Pelosi, claiming that she was, you know, or that her husband in particular was buying stocks off. information that obviously Congress would have ahead of other people. But also this this sort of retrospective ban. on anything that he's done up until this point.

I mean, his sons must be be thrilled. I wonder if this extends to Jared Nirvana, too, because it's basically members of his family, isn't it? So it must do. Right? The, the I mean, that appears to be the case. even in the in the small print it says not limited to I. So it would appear that Todd Branch. or whoever his successor is might. might be able to set the terms here, should say as well.

on, on on the topic of this grift and this sort of extraordinary. You mean you mentioned Nancy Pelosi? This 1.8 billion fund actually overshadowed the previous. sleazy Trump story, which was the industrial scale. at which he is trading stocks and bonds of companies, which he is. talking about and making decisions about and even talking up in public.

Nancy Pelosi. has long been a target for a lot of stock trading. And there are, you know, there are good reasons to see. our elected representatives shouldn't be trading stocks. But Trump has made more than 3500 trades in the course of this year. And the volume and the value of those trades. is actually more than the total value of all the stock. trading by every member of Congress at the same time, put together.

So the absolutely industrial scale on which you just say that again, because that's the most remarkable statistic. So there's these 3500 or so stock trades. have a total value of each stock trade adds up to value. That value is he has traded more. in stocks and bonds than the stocks, than the total value. of all the stocks and bonds traded by every member of Congress.

It's just incredible. And obviously some. some members of Congress don't trade, but a lot as we know are trade quite a lot. But that total value is you know, it's it's extraordinary. It's it's actually hard to get your head around. It's just remarkable. And I saw JD Vance sort of. brushing away criticism by saying, of course, Donald Trump's. not sitting at the cabinet table with his Robin Hood account open,

you know, trading as if that were the accusation. I mean, the accusation is much deeper and much, much more troubling. If I were a Republican candidate or a politician, I would just be irate at the way he steamrolled them. I mean, there are reasons to be irate with the Democrats right now, but the Republicans must just feel like they are some kind of paper. Not even Tiger, but just pointless. I mean, pointless to be a Republican, either congressman.

or senator at this point, unless they can actually offer something, offer something concrete because he's steamrolling over everybody. Well, he's steamrolling and he's he's making, like, a bandit. His net. worth is reliably calculated, as we know, by Forbes, who always, you know, who track the net worth of billionaires with great forensic precision. In 2021, just after he was toughed. out of office the first time, he was about $2.4 billion.

That's a lot of money, I have to say. You know, I think anybody who wants to this watching this wouldn't. mind 2.4 billion in the bank, but 2.4. billion in 2021, 2024. He managed to get that up to $4.3 billion. And right now Forbes puts them on $6.1 billion. So it's you know, absolutely. if anybody has made out of being in elected office, this is it.

Nobody in elected office has ever seen their net worth. go up by such an amount in such a short time. And the. contrast, of course, with Joe Biden is just actually. I mean, incredible, incredible. The Daily Beast is brought to you. by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Here's something that should be on your radar as America approaches its 250th.

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where you don't show up for two full months. He's basically not been heard of for two months. Nobody knows what's wrong with him. He said he's ill. Can you think of another job? Anybody out there listening to this now? Please comment. If you can think of a job. other than being a novelist, where you do not have to turn up. and and no one is supposed to ask questions, he has someone apparently. posting on his social media for him, but he has literally disappeared.

They said, oh, this, he's got an illness. We're not going to tell you what it is. He'll be back eventually. It's not going to impact him doing his job. He has missed 88 roll call votes. This to me again unfathomable. What is happening to America's politicians? What is happening to America's politicians? Why aren't his colleagues saying where is he? He's been missing 88 votes 75 days.

I mean, do I know you are my boss? If I didn't turn up for. five, five hours, five, 75 minutes, 75 minutes. But he's not been there for 75 days. And it is. I mean, in some ways I think this, but it's really serious. People are, you know, the people. of his district in new Jersey voted for him. They actually voted for him for the first time in 2022. to say, Tom Kean Jr, the junior, is significant.

His father was the governor of New Jersey. He is a fourth generation Republican. member of a, you know, a member of the governing class. I should say they include a congressman and a senator, but he was voted in 2022 and then revolted in 2024. I mean, they have a job to do. There are people. There are people who depend on them there. There's legislation that depends on them. 75 days he hasn't been seen.

He finally surfaced on Thursday. Kind of surfaced. I'm seeing surfaced what's actually seen him. He made a call to the new Jersey globe, which is a Republican leaning. news website, and he said, I'm just going to call that my doctors are confident in my recovery. But he didn't say what it was from. And even more strangely, it turned out that his wife. and the dog haven't been seen at home for.

some amount of time, maybe weeks, maybe even 75 days either. And the neighbors can't even remember when they last saw the car. So this this just is perplexing. One of the members of Republican leadership was asked about it and said, oh, I've heard this coming back and was asked, what's up with me? But oh, I didn't ask him what? I'm sorry, what is how is this possible? You could not do this in any other walk of life. You couldn't do it as a teacher.

You couldn't do it as a nurse or a doctor. You definitely couldn't do it at the Daily Beast. I mean, this is remarkable that politicians think they owe. their voting public no explanation when they have disappeared for 75 days. And good luck to him if he if he's ill, we hope he has a speedy recovery. But people, if they have voted for you, deserve to know what is wrong with you and why you have disappeared. Yeah, and.

just to point out. the obvious question, yes, he's still being paid. Of course he's still being paid. Of course he's still being paid. And he's a nepo politician. I was his grandfather was a senator. He's a nepo politician, his fourth generation politician, and he feels entitled to take 75 days off without telling anybody. what's wrong with him. And just about, I think, most people's most Donald people's workplaces. I haven't actually checked out workplaces.

If one of us was, God forbid, off for 75 days, but I think we would. actually be on disability, not on full pay. So does seem like something of a double standard. Well, if I was a voter in new Jersey, I would want to know what was going on. Just again, extraordinary. But perhaps he's hiding from the polls because the polls are the lowest. they've been. Even Fox News is poll, which I think came out. today, has Trump at 61% disapproval.

rating for what he's doing, which is, again, I mean, every day it just feels like there's a new level of crazy. And this was before people fully understood what was going on. with his, with his slush fund and the idea, the idea that an Oath Keeper. can apply for financial compensation, having been aggrieved or having had the Justice Department.

somehow weaponized against them for beating a policeman. This the Hall of Mirrors. It's a hall of mirrors. And those those poll. ratings, it's not you know, as you see, Joanna, this is before people had begun to absorb the sleeves. It takes a few days, as we know, for people, for polls to be conducted. So this poll would have started before the Monday,

you know, before the Monday revelation about the about the slush fund. And as we've been saying, it's been it's been a slow burn. It's taken really. until the end of the week for people to begin to get their heads around it. But the other numbers are really, really bad as well. 57% of people think that Trump's. policies are, in the long run, bad for America. 57% of people obviously includes his voters. 60% of people disapprove of his handling of Iran,

the approval rating. And Fox and I should we should say Fox are known for actually very, very good and rigorous polling. And we know that it's good and rigorous. because every time they publish it, Trump gets really angry about it. He's very upset that Fox is, you know, upset that Fox are the people. are telling him bad news and particularly when they do their polling. But this poll puts him in a 39% approval rating. And that's that's at the bottom of the Fox range.

The approval rating of the New York Times Siena poll earlier. this week, again really regarded as authoritative, was 37%. There's no argument that he has lost this swathe of independent. and even Republican voters that put him in office, and he's down at 37%. And, you know, I think many people who watch these polls. say somebody's going one way after that. Well, he was up at two in the morning,

frantically, manically truth socialist. about Stephen Colbert's last evening, which was last night, a bit of a victory for Trump in that. he got rid of Stephen Colbert, largely. But it wasn't the only exit from CBS this week. It was not. CBS has, of course, been bought by David Ellison.

He is the son of Larry Ellison, the Oracle multi multi. multi-billionaire, and Larry Ellison is a friend. As long as Donald Trump and they've turned we all know. CBS in a more MAGA curious direction. One of the casualties of the of this has been Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper best known of course as a CNN anchor. But for the last 20 years he has been a correspondent on 60 minutes.

And on Sunday night he left a valedictory message. I hope 60 minutes remain 60 minutes. There's very few things that have been around. for as long as 60 minutes has and maintained the quality that it has, and things can always evolve and change, and I think that's awesome. and things should evolve and change. But I hope the core of what 60 minutes is always remains. I think the independence of 60 minutes has been critical. Congressman Steve Kroft in 60 minutes.

We're in southern Israel. I think also the variety of stories. Why did you decide to come to the United States? This Chinese boat rammed us intentionally, and I think the trust it has. with viewers is critical to the success of 60 minutes as as you can hear. Anderson Cooper says, crucially, that he believes. in the independence of 60 minutes. So that has absolutely sent shockwaves. through the top echelons at CBS and particularly Barry Weiss.

She is the new head of CBS news overseas, ultimately 60 minutes. But she has been involved in the war with 60 minutes. that has been played out in public. And in fact, we now learned, thanks to Oliver Dorsey. and the Status newsletter, that she was blindsided. and is really, really angry about what Anderson Cooper had to say. And of course, Barry Weiss started her own newsletter, The Free Press,

which David Ellison bought, put her in charge of CBS news, which was a big move for her because she has no television experience. So it's a little bit like taking someone who's started a. small dentistry practice and then saying, well, you can do dentistry, so you must be able to do cardiology. We're going to put you in. charge of heart surgery because you know how the body works. or you know about a little bit of the body.

And so she seems to be being tripped up by a lot of her own correspondence, a lot of people who work at CBS who are enormously fed up, that someone who doesn't understand what they've been trying to do. is, is now put in charge of them. Is 60 minutes actually being compromised? Is its integrity actually being compromised by Barry Weiss, do you think? Well, I think this is going to be the big question.

that emerges over the next few months. They there was a very, very public spat with Charlene Alfonsi, who had who was one of the 60 minutes correspondents and, you know, an award winning veteran, respected journalist. And she had put together a package on sea court, this crazy prison where Trump. Trump's immigration crackdown was sending people. from the United States into this sort of dark site in El Salvador.

And this was this became a bone of public contention. It was postponed by Barry Weiss, and eventually it was broadcast. And eventually, in fact, it was acclaimed for its quality and had not been altered in the interim. So this was the one thing that, you know, that was that was exported out in public. And it appeared, as far as best we can tell this season, Barry Weiss really did not have much impact on 60 minutes. And in fact, it had very good ratings, better ratings this year than last year. But.

it seems as best we can tell. that Sharon is not is not having her contract renewed. There is a question over whether Barry Weiss may even remove. the executive producer of the show, and it certainly seems that she's. there are suggestions that she is going to be putting other people in that show, including Tony de couple, who's the anchor.

of the CBS Evening News and has proved has been put in there. But Barry Wise and proved himself pretty controversial. I think we all remember that he praised. Marco Rubio, saying, Marco Rubio, we salute you, the ultimate Florida man. And he dropped a diss against Walter Cronkite, of all people, saying he would be more transparent than Cronkite. So, the big question here is, is Anderson Cooper's departure, Sharon, offenses apparent departure.

Is that going to enable. Barry Wise to more control over 60 minutes, perhaps make it more. MAGA coded as she has made the CBS Evening News? And is it enough fear of the impact that this would have on. Because the other thing but 60 minutes is it makes money in the business of news. It is very rare nowadays to be commercially successful, and that is absolutely what 60 minutes says. People really do tune in and is Barry.

White is going to be going to change that and in danger this success? That's a big question. There's a lot of soap opera to play out here. Well, the other thing that's interesting too, is that. Anderson Cooper had this, well, we heard him. depart with a sense of foreboding, I think is perhaps the best word about what is going to happen at CBS. But of course, CNN, his regular base, where he hosts.

a nightly news show at 8 p.m., is in the process. of being bought by the Ellison's as part of the Warner Brothers deal. Warner Brothers own CNN. The Ellison's are now with Donald Trump having intervened, of course, on behalf of his friends, because initially the deal was going to go. to Netflix, Warner Brothers was going to go to Netflix. Donald Trump stepped in. It's now going to. to Paramount. and the Ellison family, they will own CNN.

So, yeah, Anderson may be back at the beginning again. And who knows what will happen at that point. Or perhaps like Don lemon, he's making plans to work for himself at YouTube. I'm sure he would get a great following. He should come and join us, Joanna. He should come. He should come to understand. And if you're listening. You're very welcome. You're very welcome to join The Daily Beast. And it's what's actually that. Anderson Cooper also had a very,

very public tribute to Stephen Colbert on his show last night as well. So he is not holding back. We've got Trump's Truth Social. I mean, again, extraordinary that a president would bother. and become so obsessed with the late night comedians. We know he's gone after Jimmy Kimmel, who remains on the air at ABC. But going after Stephen Colbert, Colbert is finally finished at CBS.

Amazing that he lasted so long. No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street. and they would have done better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he's finally gone. I mean, why is the why does he care? Why does he care? He's got $6 billion. He's doubled his income since he came into it. Came into office. He scorched earth. His own Republican Party. Why does he care about Stephen Colbert?

Stephen Colbert has obviously got under his skin in some way, but. it's sort of tragic that this man's insecurities. are so pathetic that he types them out at two in the morning, two in the morning once again. And as as you know, Joanna, we have discussed endlessly. the health consequences and concerns you've got to have. about somebody at 79 being up at two in the morning.

attached to their mobile phone screen, texting and rage. The other sort of I do have a theory that what enraged him. was that Stephen Colbert actually never used his name on that final show. And we know that Trump likes nothing better than watching television. I have no doubt that Trump watched every minute, and I suspect. that the absence of Trump's name may have been part of the rage here.

And of course, he also had as a final guest Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney versus kid Rock, Paul McCartney, kid Rock. I think we know who most people prefer. Anyway. Hugh, it's very good to see you. I'm excited to get back to the office. I'm coming back this weekend and the door behind me still hasn't opened. Going to line up a Jennifer Hudson Shores style. Welcome for you in the office. Excellent, excellent. I look forward to that.

If you have been thank you for joining us again. Thank you so much for your comments, Hugh. Thank you for standing in so ably for me while I was away. I'm very excited to to be back. And, you know, for anyone else who's lost a parent recently, my heart goes out to you. It's one of the hardest things any of us will deal with. And I'm very grateful that I had the time that I had with my mom. I've never spent so much time, I think, with my mom for 40 odd years. So I'm very grateful that I had that time, which was allowed to me.

by very generous colleagues. So again, Huey and your team, big thanks for for allowing me that. Oh. Thank you. Joanna, we are all so sorry for your was, And big thank you to our production team. Brian, Rachel, Heather and Neil. And we've got a new producer starting next week. who I haven't even met yet, so that's exciting. But, John, welcome to the Daily Beast team. So the good news is we have so many beast tier members now.

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