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📣 Great news!

2WAY has announced its new co-host lineup for “The Morning Meeting.”

Radio host and editor @LarryOConnor and Democratic strategist @KevinPWalling will join @MarkHalperin as co-hosts.

We hope you’ll join us on weekday mornings at 9a ET.

“So you’ll hear a lot of people in the press say this is a horrible decision because Stephen Miller is a horrible guy,” says @MarkHalperin. “You’ll hear a lot of that. I’m not saying that. What I’m telling you is Stephen Miller is a horrible choice if the goal is to have any relationship with the Democrats in Congress… I do not know why the president chose him, and I do not know how this will end, but I can tell you there are going to be horrible relationships between the Office of the Chief of Staff and Democrats on Capitol Hill.”

“I think that it was time for her to go,” says @MarkHalperin about Susie Wiles, “for the good of the president and the good of the country and the good of Susie Wiles. All things considered, she knows about politics. She did not defer to other people on the midterms. She ran that thing the way chief of staff does. And it’s really one of the biggest disasters in modern American political history. She presided over it.”

“Presidents after shellackings and tsunamis, typically do something to… turn the page, change the narrative,” says @MarkHalperin. “Bill Clinton brought in David Gergen. George Bush fired Rumsfeld.” There are now “swirling questions,” Mark says, “about whether Pete Hegseth will become a senator from Tennessee, appointed by Marsha Blackburn, or will be fired.” Late Friday afternoon, Punchbowl reported that Blackburn’s team, already facing a backlash, is “vowing” a Hegseth appointment won’t happen.