Welcome to Nightly Offensive. I'm your guest host, Maria Zee, filling in for Elijah Schaefer,

and let me tell you, do we have a broadcast for you tonight? We've got our guest host, Lauren

Witsky, joining us tonight. Lauren, welcome. Thank you, thank you. I'm so happy to be here.

It is great to have you. And of course, our producer, Mike on the chair. Mike?

I'm muted and I'm on baby duty right now. So maybe a bit limited, but Elijah's not in town tonight.

So got to bring your baby to work. So, you know, that's how it works around here.

We appreciate your dedication. Well, let's start the show.

I didn't realize we were live. your dedication. Well, let's start the show. The audio?

I didn't realize we were live.

Okay, sorry.

The audio for the intro is working, but, you know, as I said, we're kind of just flying by seat of our parents right now, so bear with us. But yeah, welcome to the show, Maria.

You guys get it. Mike's here with his babies, doing his best, and I'm sure the audience will be gracious. Well, we've got a lot to talk about tonight because it looks like RFK Jr. is going to potentially get confirmed.

I mean, he's past the initial rounds.

What are your thoughts on this, Lauren?

Yeah, I mean, I have been told by RFK insiders that he has the votes, that he actually, they went into this knowing that he had the votes.

So it's kind of almost like it's kind of been a little bit of theater,

but I think he handled it very well.

He got a lot of pressure from Bernie Sanders and other United States senators,

and he held the line.

Yeah, yeah.

I think he, there are some really amazing things that he had said during that hearing.

And then there are some things that we want to talk about, some concerns that people have

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