Ron says the resignation of Jacinda Ardern has been a talking point in the US and a shock to her many admirers.
Also there's much discussion about the US President's people's "own goal"on their mishandling of his leftover documents, some decades old.
The US also now technically over a self-imposed debt limit, which is a relic from the debates over debt and foreign policy from 1917.
Ron says it's usually a formality but nothing works as per usual any more, it seems, so this could have major ramifications by summer.
And Joe Biden's White House is undergoing a shakeup with the departure of Chief of Staff Ron Klain.
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