First, Ben dives into the early midterm battlegrounds as Marsha Blackburn, Nancy Mace and Roy Cooper jump into key races and explains why Republicans cannot afford to coast despite a favorable Senate map. Then Brit Hume joins to dissect the media’s Russiagate failures, the ethics disaster of Jim Acosta’s AI “interview” and the corrosive role of anonymous sources in Washington journalism. Finally culture writer Kat Rosenfield discusses everything from the internet’s public shaming culture and whether romance can survive in the age of apps.