- HOUSEKEEPING!! Owen just finished working for the US House of Representatives, and is looking forward to using these experiences to enhance the pod :)

- Trump appoints Kash Patel to FBI Director, and current director Chris Wray resigns with 3 years left in his term

- Dems/GOP worried about Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence

- Pres. Biden commutes sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardons an additional 39.