The episode delivers a rapid-fire news update covering a Republican-led Senate committee's contempt vote against Dr. Anthony Fauci, a potential breakthrough in U.S.-Iran talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz mediated by Turkey, mixed Wall Street performance buoyed by Moderna’s FDA-approved
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