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Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) is Interviewed about the Army Secretary's Resignation; DHS to Start Voter Fraud Crackdown Investigation; The Left Calls Out the Right's Hypocrisy. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired September 01, 2026 - 06:30 ET
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AUDIE CORNISH, CNN ANCHOR: All right, back now to our top story and the question about military readiness under Pete Hegseth. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is resigning amid tension with the defense secretary. He joins a long list of top brass that's been fired or forced out since Hegseth took over. It's raising concerns about his leadership and where it leaves our military.
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MAJOR GEN. RANDY MANNER, U.S. ARMY (RET.): It's a crisis of leadership even within this administration, within the Department of Defense. And again, it is putting our young men and women in harm's way unnecessarily. So, this is totally inappropriate. Quite frankly, the secretary of defense has got to go.
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CORNISH: Joining me now, Democratic congressman of Maryland, Johnny Olszewski. He also sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, not Armed Services, but I wanted to ask because most of our foreign affairs these days is military.
REP. JOHNNY OLSZEWSKI (D-MD): Absolutely.
CORNISH: So, do you have concerns about Pete Hegseth's leadership?
OLSZEWSKI: Yes, I actually agree with the leader you had on. It's time for the secretary to go. I mean, I called for his resignation or firing back when he was leaking war plans on Signal. And so, this has been a leader of our Department of Defense that has clearly been more interested in social media and the spotlight than actually fighting and winning wars and keeping our country safe.
CORNISH: Is Driscoll's leaving a particular concern? I know lawmakers are coming back this week. Do you expect this is something they'll talk about?
OLSZEWSKI: This is a -- this is a big deal. And I think that, to the extent that we're actually in session this week, if we don't get sent home early again, I do think this will be something talked about on Capitol Hill. And I think that it's something that we should be taking seriously.
Anytime you have expert leaders within the military stepping away, it should raise concerns. And I think that not only is it inappropriate, the way that this secretary is leading the department, but also want to echo and re-up my calls for his resignation or firing.
CORNISH: One of the things that I'm trying to process along with this news is where we are when it comes to the war with Iran.
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: Where we are when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz. You've got "The Washington Post" reporting that the U.S. military, that there are leaders who have been warning Hegseth that the prolonged conflict is unsustainable and actually weakens their risks to deal with other threats elsewhere, including the homeland.
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: We're heading into 9/11's 25th commemoration. Do you have concerns about our position militarily, are people blowing that out of proportion and doing it in full view of Iran?
OLSZEWSKI: Well, I mean, our military experts, the ones who actually have won and fought wars in the past, are the ones who are raising the alarm here. And so, I absolutely share those concerns. We know that our missile stockpile is depleted. We're losing some of our best intelligence and some of our most talented officers. They're being replaced by social media influencers. And I think that is not the way to run --
CORNISH: Are you able to know who those influencers are or --
OLSZEWSKI: Well, that would be -- I would love to if the administration would actually talk to us on Foreign Affairs or Armed Services.
CORNISH: Yes.
OLSZEWSKI: But what I can tell you is, if you were to say to the American people, we're going to have 18 Americans killed, we're going to have 750 Americans injured, we're going to spend tens of billions of your dollars, and we're going to cost you $1,200 out of your pocket without any involvement or approval by Congress, that would not fly anywhere else.
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And yet that's exactly what's happened here with the war.
CORNISH: Can I come back to the influencer thing?
OLSZEWSKI: Sure. CORNISH: Talking about Hegseth kind of bringing folks into the department of defense? This is fascinating because this administration embraces online influencers very tightly. And one of them has had a hand, reportedly, claims to have had a hand in getting people fired, you know, in the security apparatus. And now she has made racist comments against some of your colleagues who are Democrats. A, what was your response when you heard what this person had to say?
OLSZEWSKI: And what Laura Loomer said was disgusting. It was vile. And it shouldn't be hard for leaders of all political stripes to reject that kind of political rhetoric.
CORNISH: One of the things you hear Republicans say when this conversation has come up in the last couple of hours is, wait a second, look, there are plenty of voices online on the left who have been saying anti-Semitic things and, therefore, how can you come after Laura Loomer in this instance?
OLSZEWSKI: I can do it because I've been a leading voice against anti- Semitism too. Hate speech is wrong, regardless of where it comes from. And that's the problem with our politics today is that people are afraid to call out what's wrong wherever it exists. That's why Americans are so frustrated with politics today because members of Congress don't get anything done. We're unwilling to call out what is clearly racist, vile rhetoric, and it's got to stop. And we --
CORNISH: You know, I --
OLSZEWSKI: We have to be the ones to stop it.
CORNISH: I'm glad you said this, because J.D. Vance was just at, I think it was the Republican Jewish Coalition. This was like last night, I think. And, A, he issued Loomer a last-minute invite while this news story is going on. And then those leaders are saying to him, why will you not denounce a Tucker Carlson or a Nick Fuentes? And he didn't. I mean, you had Jewish leaders saying to J.D. Vance, to his face --
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: You are encouraging people who platform anti-Semitism.
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: And basically he was like, look, you're going to disagree. People disagree.
I'm baffled by hugging someone like Loomer closely --
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: And then looking in the face of Jews in the Republican Party and saying, people can disagree.
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: We got to find a way to talk to them.
OLSZEWSKI: We can disagree, but that doesn't provide the permission structure or it shouldn't provide the permission structure for hate speech, for anti-Semitism, for racism, for xenophobia, for islamophobia. It's all wrong. And the fact that the vice president of the United States cannot have the moral courage to reject that kind of language is disappointing. It's disturbing. And I think Americans deserve better.
CORNISH: I feel like we are in -- you know in "Point Blank" when they grab each other and jump out of the plane, this is where we're in, in the conversation about the isms in America.
OLSZEWSKI: Uh-huh. Whataboutisms, yes.
CORNISH: Anti-Semitism, bad. Racism, bad. But, actually, when my guy does it, it's a little different.
OLSZEWSKI: Or when my first (ph) --
CORNISH: And I don't understand what lawmakers get out of that.
OLSZEWSKI: It really, I think, is an unfortunate reflection of the tribalism you're seeing in American politics today. And far too many people are unwilling to call out differences. I mean, I've called out, for example --
CORNISH: But do you think we're going to see the RJC, for instance, call out Laura Loomer?
OLSZEWSKI: Probably not. I mean, I'm not -- I'm not going to hold my breath. But I -- what I want to see are leaders just -- there is something within us that I think tells us what's right and what's wrong. And what Laura Loomer has said is absolutely wrong. Some of the anti-Semitic comments we've seen are absolutely wrong, and we should be able to denounce all of that collectively.
CORNISH: I'm going to bring to something that people can actually agree on, which is their frustration with data centers. Looking at most recent polling, Fox News, in fact, just did a poll late July and they asked people, what do you think of construction of an A.I. data center in your area? And 70 percent of people opposed it.
And then, weirdly, though, I think President Trump did a post about it on Truth Social, and he said, "the only reason that communities throughout the USA should not want data centers is that they want to end up being backwards and poor."
OLSZEWSKI: That's fresh for a guy who has made billions of dollars stock trading and cashing in off the American government.
I don't think you're backwards and poor if you really want to see clean water and that you're concerned about things like energy use and the energy prices that are being driven by the use of data centers. It's clear -- CORNISH: But there's people who are saying, look, we're going to fall behind China if we do not find a way to progress this industry without engendering this backlash. Is there a way to do that? And do Democrats actually have the language to talk about it?
I mean, Ed Markey, in his race, didn't even know what, like, A.I. was on his phone.
OLSZEWSKI: yes.
CORNISH: You know what I mean?
OLSZEWSKI: Yes. Yes.
CORNISH: It (ph) was giving tubes. So, like, I feel like you guys are not equipped.
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OLSZEWSKI: I mean, look, I certainly understand, as best as a member can, issues of, you know, artificial intelligence and the connection to data centers. I think we have to find a way to make sure that we are advancing the technology.
Both A.I. and sort of all of the associated technologies, but also the associated work around it through data centers, which powers that work. But I think we can do that in a way that it's also sensitive to the fact that people are being crushed by high energy costs. And I actually support the president, back in his State of the Union he talked about bring your own energy. I haven't heard a lick about that from him since he -- I don't know if it was off the cuff and he -- or if he actually cared about lowering costs.
CORNISH: Yes. But forcing the data centers to provide --
OLSZEWSKI: Absolutely. Sure. Like, we can build them, but let's make sure that the water is clean, communities have some input and some buy in and get some benefit from being placed in their backyard. And let's make sure that, you know, the average American isn't being crushed with energy costs as a result of these data centers coming online.
I don't want to lose the race to China, but we have to make sure that we're doing it responsibly, both in the building of the data centers, but also in how we're deploying the technology that's associated with it.
CORNISH: OK, Congressman Johnny O., we asked you a lot today. Thank you so much for being with us.
OLSZEWSKI: Yes.
CORNISH: Next on CNN THIS MORNING, the Trump administration is ramping up their investigations into voter fraud. This is just weeks out from the midterms. So, we're going to ask whether this is about election security or whether it's actually undermining the public's trust.
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CORNISH: So, is it a legit crackdown or an attempt to undermine election integrity? Today, CNN has learned that the Trump administration is set to launch a voter fraud investigation surge. It will focus on nine states and run through mid-October, led by the Department of Homeland Security. Now, according to the guidance obtained by CNN, the department will "pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review."
Democrats aren't sold that that's all that's going on. The secretary of state in Nevada telling Democracy Docket, quote, "this whole exercise has been bull. Their whole desire to create confusion, create chaos, create lack of confidence in the electoral process is all bull."
The group chat is back.
We know that this is an issue that the White House cares about a lot. This is all we hear about. I want to look at the states, though, that they're going after, Georgia, where there's a big Senate race. Also, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, California, Nevada again. Can you talk to me, what it is they're trying to do with these states?
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Well, a bunch of those states have a lot of competitive House races in them too.
CORNISH: Wait, say that again.
DOVERE: They have competitive House races in them.
CORNISH: OK.
DOVERE: In California, in Georgia, and in Missouri. Look --
CORNISH: I should say, a lot of these states also sued the White House --
DOVERE: Yes.
CORNISH: To say, we are not giving you our voter rolls.
DOVERE: But --
CORNISH: And they're not going to have to do it.
DOVERE: Right. But what we ha here is the latest version of people saying that they're worried about voter fraud. We have yet to see any major evidence in any election of significant voter fraud. And yet it remains a talking point. Obviously, if there's fraud of voting, that's a big problem. But it does not seem like we have empirical evidence of that for all the political talk of it.
Now, what we do see is many efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to raise a lot of questions about the elections that, of course, January 6th, all that stuff. But it is what they're doing about challenging how voting by mail might happen.
CORNISH: Yes.
DOVERE: All these things that may lead to some revelations about voting going on or may just lead to a lot of questions about the results when they do come in.
CORNISH: Here's Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security secretary, in July, talking about where they believe they have found some problems.
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MARKWAYNE MULLIN, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: We've identified 250,000 non-citizens registered to vote in California and Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada.
One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don't lie.
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CORNISH: Now, I just want to update one thing. In Nevada, DHS claimed to have found 15,903. They actually only confirmed 185 of the ones they claim to have found. Just want to give an update to that.
DOVERE: But, importantly, those are people that they found on the voter rolls. These are not fraudulent votes that they found cast, which is --
CORNISH: That's just a name. Yes.
DOVERE: Yes. Right.
CHUCK ROCHA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Go ahead.
ASHLEY DAVIS, FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL: Because you know I'm going to go on this one. I -- so, first of all, this is still an 85 percent issue that Americans think Americans should only vote in our elections. So, to me, whether it's 185 or it's two, people that aren't --
CORNISH: But is that different from 80/20 Americans believe past elections have been fraudulent or overturned?
DAVIS: What this initiative is, is getting people that aren't American citizens off of being able to vote. I mean -- and so --
CORNISH: Then why do states fight it? Even red states.
DAVIS: Well, because it's a state's rights issue. And so I think it's just more about that.
And I understand that. But I think if there's two people, like there's a lot more than 185 that were registered to vote that weren't U.S. citizens in New Jersey. So, we can't just like -- and that's what we know about, that the governor actually told us about. I think that if there's two people voting that aren't American
citizens and it's illegal to vote, they shouldn't be voting. So, I -- but I understand your points, that is, are they just trying to muddy the water? All those states, you just mentioned that they're going after are not Republican states.
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I mean some of them are. But I don't -- can't tell you how many dead people are voting in Philadelphia every year. It doesn't impact the elections. I'm not saying that it does.
CORNISH: But isn't that the point is you can't tell us?
DOVERE: Right, but it's -- it's probably better than an 80 to 20 issue.
CORNISH: Yes.
DOVERE: That, like, space aliens shouldn't destroy planet earth. But it's a question of how much resources we're, you know, putting up to deal with it and how much attention it is and what the actual agenda is that's driving this (INAUDIBLE).
CORNISH: I actually hear Democrats on this issue talking about more this will be pretext --
ROCHA: Yes.
CORNISH: To have more enforcement, perhaps of various kinds, right? ICE is at his disposal and others.
ROCHA: This is not going to be a -- this is not going to be a national election. We talk about this. And Isaac is right. This comes down to a handful of House races, a handful of Senate races. That's where the election will be. And Donald Trump, and I wrote this to you this morning, is like a dog with a bone with this. Like, he is not going to let it go. This is what he wants to talk about. And he's the president. He has the right to. And again, I don't want folks who shouldn't be registered unlawfully voting, voting. But if you think about it, and what they're alleging, somebody who comes here and who is, quote/unquote, undocumented, who may or may not have registered to vote, whether they meant to or not, do you really think if they risked everything to come to America they're going to give it up by publicly going and voting where we know who they are and that they voted? I find that hard to believe. Again, I don't think none of this is happening at a big pace, but I also don't believe that folks who are risking their lives to come to America are going to mess that up by going and registering and voting.
CORNISH: Well --
DAVIS: Well, 640 of them just did in New Jersey like a year ago. So --
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DAVIS: No, they voted.
CORNISH: One of the arguments I hear from J.D. Vance and others is that, when you bring people in, especially people who are not citizens or people who are just from another country, they're going to bring evil values with them and change the nature of the country.
DAVIS: That's -- I don't think that's true.
CORNISH: Well, it's relevant to the next story.
DAVIS: No. Yes, OK.
CORNISH: Because far right activist and friend of the White House, Laura Loomer, is doubling down on a racist attack. She's taking aim at Florida's Democratic Senate nominee, Angie Nixon, and other black female lawmakers.
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LAURA LOOMER, CONSERVATIVE PODCASTER: Call out the entitlement of these, as I like to call them, ghetto black bitches.
I've noticed this stereotype exists in the Democrat Party, and I don't think it belongs in the United States Senate. Unfortunately, it's already in the United States Congress. Angie Nixon, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush. Ketanji Brown Jackson. I mean, look at that disaster.
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CORNISH: Loomer's not apologizing, writing on X, she stands by her comments. She's got close ties to the White House, which has raised flags for some in the past. And today, Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump, quote, "owns Loomer and her nonstop vitriol," writing, "when will the president and the Republican Party reject her and her hateful, racist behaviors? They refuse, which tells you everything you need to know."
I wanted to talk about this because this story, as it was breaking, Loomer also tweeted, hey, there wasn't any press allowed into this Republican Jewish coalition meeting. And Vance got me in. A I was like, what? Like, I was checking time stamps to be like, I'm confused. This person, who is saying the most racist things imaginable, is going to go into this meeting where Vance is going to be asked why he's platforming online influencers who spew hate.
DOVERE: Yes, look, Laura Loomer's connection to the White House and the administration is one that people have been raising a lot of questions about for a long time. And every time that she makes one of these comments, it blows up.
CORNISH: Yes.
DOVERE: And she has a long history of doing that.
It is this question of, is she functioning as a reporter at the Pentagon, which she has said that she has credentials to, this speech that the vice president gave was closed to the press at the event in Las Vegas, and that she got into it. So, is she functioning as press or is she not? Is she --
CORNISH: We don't know. I mean when I -- I'm going to put up a full screen here of people that she claims to have gotten fired.
DOVERE: Yes.
CORNISH: You know what I mean?
DOVERE: Right.
CORNISH: So, I'm not talking about a random online influencer.
DOVERE: No, no, no, she has very close ties to the White House. Very --
CORNISH: In the security apparatus. NSA. CIA.
DOVERE: Sure.
CORNISH: So, why are they not denouncing her? Where are the -- there's this weird thing where Republicans want to be basically moral arbiters on the issue of anti-Semitism. Like with Piker.
DAVIS: Yes.
CORNISH: And with Piker. But cannot somehow this part.
DAVIS: Do --
CORNISH: Somehow racism is a card to be played and not to be taken seriously. How do you do both? How do you rush into the breach (ph) to tell Jews and the Democratic Party, we're here for you, but we're not here for these other people, we're going to call them dogs?
DAVIS: Well, first of all, all of it is horrible. And I heard your -- the congressman in your last segment. I mean this -- the fact that we even have to have this discussion in this country, whether it's anti- Semitic or racist, is absolutely wrong. But I do want to stick up for Republicans. Not all Republicans haven't said that what she said is horrible.
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It's just the administration hasn't come out and said that she's --
CORNISH: Why is it just the ones who don't like her? I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't like Laura Loomer for good reason (ph).
DAVIS: Yes, but there were -- there were congressmen. There were several members of Congress that came out and don't --
CORNISH: Who else? I want loud.
DAVIS: Yes, no, I hear you.
CORNISH: What I'm hearing today is, what about Hasan Piker?
ROCHA: Right.
CORNISH: I'm hearing a deep disease of what about ism.
DAVIS: But here's what I don't like about this even more. She's a racist human being. And we're talking about her, giving her a platform too. Like, so it's like we should --
CORNISH: Yes. Here is why.
DAVIS: And she knows exactly what she's doing.
CORNISH: She does. She said this morning, look, you're talking about me. I won.
DAVIS: Yes.
CORNISH: But to that, the reason why I want to talk about her is because when J.D. Vance brought her to this Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Vegas, he was asked by people there about the cultural influence of podcasters, online people, and how some had been platforming anti-Semitism.
"The New York Times" just this morning wrote that what he said to them is like, well, he did a well, look. Well, look, "a lot of people in this room are going to disagree with things that Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly or Joe Rogan have said. Just to hone in on Fuentes and Rogan, I think these are two very different categories of people, both with their reach, but also within the ideas that are in their actual head."
An explanation, an explanation that I don't think they offer to people on the other side.
DOVERE: Yes.
CORNISH: You can't explain away your contacts on the other side. But the vice president can.
DOVERE: At least he's trying to, right? And that -- look, J.D. Vance came into politics and then into the Senate and into the vice presidency. He's mixed up in this world of podcasts and very involved with the manosphere and the online right. That comes with baggage when it comes to people like Nick Fuentes, like Laura Loomer, like Tucker Carlson, right? And we are in a place in politics where people who have podcasts, influencers, have a much bigger role in the conversation.
It is strange to a lot of people that Hasan Piker, whatever you think of his views, is someone -- a podcaster who is featured at rallies now, but it is not to a lot of Democrats who like him and say, OK, he's a celebrity now.
CORNISH: Yes.
DOVERE: It's the same thing with Laura Loomer, right?
CORNISH: Yes.
DOVERE: How is this person who --
CORNISH: Although, she is yanking people out of the CIA? So, that's a little --
DOVERE: Right.
CORNISH: I mean, as much as the on stage industry --
DAVIS: That's part of the -- that's what she's saying now.
CORNISH: That's what she says.
DAVIS: I mean we get --
CORNISH: But no one ever stops her. No one ever says, no, they bring her on the plane.
ROCHA: And they're making lots of money.
DOVERE: Yes.
ROCHA: I mean, lots of money.
CORNISH: Yes.
ROCHA: For you old folks who are watching this early in the morning like me and you saw that thing when they put up a Loomer or when they put up Piker on this show last week when I was on it --
CORNISH: Yes.
ROCHA: It showed that little thing that kept going. That's because she is streaming live, y'all. That's because she is saying crazy, almost said the "s" word, stuff so that she can get clicks and she can get likes and we can talk about it because she's making millions, just like folks on the left do. I don't make this a left or right thing.
CORNISH: Yes.
ROCHA: But there's a difference when the candidate in Michigan says, look, he don't speak for me, I speak for me. And that --
DOVERE: But all of a sudden he says that he --
ROCHA: Right.
DAVIS: But all -- yes, that's right.
CORNISH: Well, I do wonder what the conversation changes too, because Republicans were in the middle of riding this high of saying Piker is a problem, let's dig in on this. And then she says, hold my beer.
So, what I don't understand is how this is supposed to play out. Is the idea that the two negatives will cancel out, and the voters will not care about it or --
DOVERE: I mean, I think, Audie, if you're looking for consistency in politics, I have some news for you.
CORNISH: Yes. Oh my God.
DAVIS: That's not the answer either. I mean, like, just ignoring it is not good.
CORNISH: I know. But, you know what, it's depressing for me to wake up and see something like that.
DAVIS: No. Yes, of course.
ROCHA: It's depressing for everybody, yes, because --
CORNISH: Like that's -- it's just this idea that if you're a black woman in the public space --
ROCHA: Yes.
CORNISH: It is perfectly fine to talk about you in the most cruel and vicious terms. And when you say something, you are playing a race card.
ROCHA: Yes.
CORNISH: And meanwhile, people will be on their ride into the studio on their high horse, take off their saddles and really lecture me about the various isms that are happening in our culture.
DOVERE: (INAUDIBLE).
CORNISH: And we can't say anything about the most basic and vicious ones.
ROCHA: I know.
CORNISH: So, I will be here holding my breath for the vice president, for the RJC, for whoever, for people who have been talking about their concerns about bigotry in this country. Now is your time. Now is your time. It's OK.
We're supposed to talk about group chats, but as you can see, this is the only thing that's in mine.
What is in yours?
DOVERE: Lionel Messi announced yesterday that he's retiring from the Argentinian team.
CORNISH: Whoa. DOVERE: And that's the end of the era for him. In a way, although he did just score four goals over the weekend in his Inter Miami game. So, it's not quite the end of Messi.
CORNISH: Awe, farewell, farewell.
ROCHA: If you really want to know what was in my group chat, I had 500 messages yesterday from different people about making TV ads, which I won't bore all of you with. But it's that time of the season. We are making ads in every country, in every state around the country.
CORNISH: Yes, which does explain the rage bait.
ROCHA: But I'll also say that live sports have started with the playoffs, with the -- with the Major League Baseball and NFL preseason has started. So, now political season and commercials are real.
DAVIS: That's a boring group chat compared to mine.
ROCHA: Oh, my God.
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DAVIS: My universe is right again because my Chucky's back.
ROCHA: What! Oh, look at that big old fish.
CORNISH: A miss.
DAVIS: I missed you so much. You're never allowed to leave again. We have --
ROCHA: My jacket matches that fish.
DAVIS: I was so sad without you this August.
CORNISH: Wait, is this photos from your phone of Chuck? Because then I'm going to have questions.
ROCHA: How about that, me in Alaska. I --
CORNISH: I'm going to have questions.
ROCHA: Hey, look, there's the Rocha boys, my grandsons.
DAVIS: Wait, you're supposed to say I missed you too.
ROCHA: Oh, I did, of course.
CORNISH: OK.
ROCHA: I was texting you nonstop.
CORNISH: Taking you to the group chat. Thank you for choosing to spend time here with me. Headlines are next.
