Mark Halperin

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back.

I'm Mark Halpern, Editor-in-Chief of the live interactive video platform Two-Way and your host here, Guide to Everything NextUp.

Delighted to have you back.

All you Nexters who are tuning in for our second episode of the week and second of the year.

Very happy.

to have you here.

We've got some great guests and a great conversation in a busy, busy news week already.

Jeff Rowe will be here.

He's a Republican strategist, one of the smartest people in politics I know, and he doesn't do a lot of media.

He's a semi-reclusive figure.

So Jeff will be here, along with Jaime Moore, a Democratic strategist.

We'll have a great conversation about

everything that's going on in politics.

And then after that, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, longtime Republican member of the Congress who was tapped by President Trump to figure out a new way to balance

the economy, how to grow the economy with a clean environment, and talk to the administrator about how he's trying to do those things, which some see as contradictory, but Lee Zeldin thinks they can do them both.

So we'll talk about that with those three great guests coming up.

But before that, in just a moment, my reported monologue on the national crisis in Minnesota in the wake of the shooting by an ICE officer.

We'll talk about what I've learned about that since it occurred.

My reported monologue is next up.