The Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition.

Before I introduce our special guests,

I just want to say a word of both sympathy and empathy

because I'm right smack in the middle of it,

to those in the path and on the tangent of

Helene that my hometown of Spartanburg is absolutely devastated.

I understand that other places are even worse than Spartanburg.

Ashville, other parts of Tennessee in North Carolina.

I will say this, it's just a glimmer of light.

I talk to both of our senators, one lives in the upstate,

so he is keenly aware of what is going on. The other as we speak is on a

helicopter taking a tour of the upstate. He himself has lived through floods and

hurricanes because he lives in Charleston, but your elected officials, at least those two that I am familiar with are doing everything that they can and they are keenly aware of what

we are going through. I've seen not only neighbors helping neighbors but I have watched strangers help strangers so there is a

glimmer of light even though this is as bad I lived through Hugo I was in Colombian just out of law school. This is worse than Hurricane Hugo, at least for those of us in the upstate and North Carolina and parts of Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.

So hang in there.

Help is coming.

It's just probably going to be a while.

With that, we are joined today by a very dear friend that I met well over a decade ago.

He was about everything you can possibly be in Congress,

a minority leader, whip, majority leader,

speaker, I have chronicled at length

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