Ezra Klein

But it is incredible how good that book is in some ways.

And also, it kind of makes you understand why the movie is a masterpiece.

Like, I didn't quite realize how faithful the movie was to the original source material.

And the last one is a new novel that I just am about halfway through through someone else that I know, Courtney Mom, called Alan Ops Out, which is a great kind of really insightful, searing, comedic look at a Greenwich advertising executive who goes to live in the playhouse in his backyard.

Chris Hayes, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek

to the United States-Mexico border.

Do not come.

Do not come.