It's Friday, October 17th.
I'm Jane Kostin, and this is What A Day,
where we want to celebrate Illinois Democratic Governor J.B.
Pritzker's apparent talent at Blackjack.
According to his 2024 tax return,
the governor won more than $1 million playing the card game on a trip to Las Vegas.
On Thursday, he said that he would be donating the money to charity,
and honestly, I'm just impressed by anyone actually being good at gambling.
On today's show,
a grand jury indicts another one of President Donald Trump's least favorite political adversaries,
while Trump himself plays you hang up, now you hang up,
with one of his most favorite political adversaries, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But let's start with the No Kings protest scheduled for this weekend.
If you attended the last No Kings protest back in June,
you were among more than 5 million people joining an estimated 2100 events across the country.
And this weekend's events might be even bigger with more protests scheduled,
which is tough news for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who seemed very mad about it on Wednesday.
This seems to be a newly recurring theme on the right.
While June's rallies got criticism from Republicans for being, quote,
intersectional clown shows, this weekend's rallies are getting a very different response.