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This week on Consider This, an encrypted group chat where members of the National Guard are processing President Trump's actions.

This is just not what any of us signed up for.

And I just wonder, like, who's going to stand up to this?

Plus, what's next for congressional Democrats after their move this week to release more of Jeffrey Epstein's emails?

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