Welcome to the Bill Bennett show. It's the podcast that translates Trump. We

examine the existential threats to the America we know and love. We examine them in

2018. We'll examine them for 2019. Right. I want to wish you all a happy new year and let's take a look back at the big stories of 2018.

Let's look ahead to 2019 and you know, news already.

The shutdown continues and I want to say something about

Romney for Pete's sake, Mitt. Couldn't you hold your fire till January 11th?

Well, at least until you're sworn in. He's sworn in.

Happy New Year everybody.

Happy New Year to you, Claude.

Happy New Year to you, too, Dr. Ginnen.

We went out New Year's Eve.

Now this is very unusual for me.

Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah, as an Irish friend of mine said I never go out

on New Year's Eve it's amateur night anyway and not that's not my reason I just

don't like I don't like the crowds I don't like the getting drunk kind of thing that people feel obligated to do right right but we went out to the great restaurant and they had a band and Mrs. Bennett and I and our son and his

girlfriend maybe fiancee we'll see we'll see okay all right and

is that an official 2019 projection from Dr. Finn?

Not yet.

Okay. Well, we're getting close, but I don't want to jinx it either.

And we had a great time.

And so there you go.

But it's a new year and there's a lot to talk about let me start with the

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