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You’re reading The Best & The Brightest, our new weekly composite of what’s really going on in this town—inside the White House, the Pentagon, on K Street, and under the Dome. On behalf of my partners Julia Ioffe, Tina Nguyen, and Peter Hamby, thanks as always for your support and feedback. Keep it coming.

Tonight, I have a plethora of news about the melee on Capitol Hill: McCarthy’s surprises, Vern Buchanan’s feelings, motion to vacate roulette, Ted Cruz’s game of chance, Rick Scott’s breakfast club, Janet Yellin’s successor, and much, much more.

But first…

Robert Hur’s Fear Factor: Just when it looked like the House Republicans were on the ropes, relentlessly wounded by their own made-for-TV infighting and backstabbing and the George Santos of it all, a new political lifeline emerged today in the form of the discovery of a set of classified files languishing in Joe Biden’s Delaware garage, beside his Corvette...

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