00:00time to be here with us today. I know you've had a busy week and really several months here.
00:04Yeah, well, it's great. It's great to be here. And first off, I did want to ask you overall,
00:09again, as I mentioned now, we are in day seven here. What sort of impacts have we seen
00:14already happening? And what could we see in the coming days and weeks?
00:19Right. Well, well, first of all, to give viewers the setting that we're in a very unusual
00:25circumstance with the government shutdown, that the Constitution and the Federalist Papers
00:31designed the Senate to be a moderating influence in our government. And in fact, under Chuck Schumer
00:37and the Democrats, they're the exact opposite. This is the third time since President Trump took
00:43office, last time plus this time, that they've shut the government down. In fact, one of the years they
00:48didn't do it was the COVID year. And so they
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