Hey, everybody. We've got a great one today, and this time, this time I finally mean it,

because it's a best of. Tim Alberto of the Atlantic on his bestseller, The Kingdom,

the Power, and the Glory, American Evangelicals in an age of extremism.

This is a great discussion of a great book.

But before I get into today's show, a word about Kilmar Abrago Garcia, whom the Trump

administration acknowledges was wrongly sent to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled down to El Salvador and was able to meet with Garcia

at what appeared to be Van Hollen's hotel.

After the meeting, Garcia was returned to the prison. Garcia clearly should be returned

to the United States, as should all the 200-some prisoners who also went to this prison without

due process. This is a travesty, which I am praying, gets resolved by these men getting the due process they deserve back in the

USA, after which the ones who are determined to be violent gang members can be returned to El Salvador.

Now, back to Tim Alberta and his book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, American Evangelicals in an

age of extremism.

I did not know a lot about evangelicals before I read this book, but it knocked my socks off.

Tim is an evangelical.

His father was a beloved evangelical minister in the Presbyterian church in the suburbs of Detroit.

And at the beginning of his book, his father has just passed away.

And Tim comes back to the church he grew up in to mourn his dad.

And Tim has just had a bestseller, American Carnage, which, as you might guess, was a critical

of Donald Trump, whom many members of this evangelical church idolize. And Tim comes back to Detroit,

where he grew up to his childhood home for his father's funeral at this church,

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