Ben Ferguson

Which, by the way, I love that part of the story.

If you haven't looked at it, please go and look at it.

He was told by his staff and speechwriters to not say it.

And he added it back in after the State Department had taken it out.

Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.

Now on to story number two.

You mentioned, by the way, that the meeting you had with her after she met with the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, was with 12 different senators.

So how does that room get made?

And it sounds like it was by person.

You mentioned a Democrat that was in that room.

Does everybody get an invite or only certain people?

How does that work?

Wait, you're saying Durbin, you didn't make the cut on Durbin's group chat?

You're not in that group chat with him?

You and I, by the way, have talked about this this week when I was up in D.C.

We had Bruce Pearl on.

By the way, if you missed that show, go back and listen to it.

The famous basketball coach who's a man standing up for Israel right now.

And that was a fun podcast.

It really was.