 And welcome back to news on is it really Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell against former president Donald Trump. McConnell landed a big punch against Trump recently when Senator John Thune agreed to run for another term with Thune standing by his side as a minority whip. Some say there's less chance of Trump's loyalists pushing McConnell out as a top Republican in Washington. That is from an op-ed in the Hill by Juan Williams saying it's Trump versus McConnell for the GOP's future. Does our panel agree with that assessment joining us once again? We have Melissa Armo and Ken Alt Shuler. What do you think about that assessment? Melissa, is it is it really come down to that? First of all, we don't even know if Trump's gonna run in 2024 and I don't think we're gonna know probably until the end of 2022 after the midterm election. So I think Trump's gonna wait until after the election at the end of the year to announce if he's running or maybe at the beginning of 2023. And if he decides to run then he's gonna continue to work with McConnell if in fact he would even win. He's gonna stay there. They're gonna work together just like they did before. Alright, so that's the prediction. They're gonna continue to work together. Do you agree with that, Ken? And who do you think Republicans mostly align themselves with? Trump or McConnell? Well, Donald Trump's base aligns themselves with Donald Trump. I think mainstream Republicans align themselves with Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell is one of the best things that happened to Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell ushered through three conservative Supreme Court nominations and kept Barack Obama from having Merrick Garland be a Supreme Court nomination or Supreme Court justice. So he did a great service for Donald Trump. He passed a ton of federal judges on behalf of Donald Trump. So Donald Trump picking this battle just because Mitch McConnell took some umbrage to Donald Trump's behavior on January 6th is a senseless battle in my opinion. And I'm not sure why Donald Trump chose to have it. Lindsey Graham has kind of gotten in the middle of it and said that he can't support a leader that doesn't get along with the leader of the Republican Party, meaning Donald Trump. I think it's silly. I think Donald Trump is smart. I think Donald Trump won't have that battle if he knows he's gonna lose it. But he's got to get off the personality battle here with Mitch McConnell because I think he's gonna lose this one. All right, real quickly because we are tight on time, but she did it again. Want to really shift gears because this is a story that we've continued to follow. So Leah Thomas, the University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer continuing now to break records only days after the NCAA announced it's new policies governing transgender athletes kind of basically leaving it up to each individual sport on making that determination. Your thoughts on this, this happened in Harvard. Can we've talked about this before? Do you see even some people have argued that this really isn't that big of a change, but do you see more changes coming this way? Real quickly, the new and the end those new regulates when the NCAA are silly. They're not clear. They're throwing they're kicking the can down the road. I think was a bad move on their part. I think we'll see changes in the future. This is a very tricky situation because testosterone levels is not the only criteria for even the playing field and particularly in a field like swimming where muscle mass has more impact than testosterone levels. I think saying that each sport should make the decision on their own, maybe a sound policy if each sport has a policy, but they don't. And so therefore you have no policy whatsoever, and it's really unfortunate. I think transgenders. There's a place for them in sports, but it may be that each sport isn't the right place for each transgender. And I think we need some more scientific evaluation of what makes an even playing. Yeah. Last 25 seconds to you, Melissa. I think this is sad for women in different sports who are now competing against men. It's a difference if you want to educate yourself and say what's the difference between a man and a woman? It's not just hormones. It's also muscle mass like Ken said, and men's bones are actually larger than women's. It really isn't fair for women who are competing in sports. If they're competing against men who are identifying now as women, I think it's sad for women. Panel, we're out of time, but we do appreciate you sharing your voice on so many topics today. We covered a lot of ground. Appreciate it. Thank you. And as always, you can weigh in by finding me at Real Morandicon hashtag share your voice, speaking of which we're going to do that right after the break. Also, what archaeologists used to think was a straw turned out to be something other than that.