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It's Thursday, April 18th, 2024, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen.

I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.

I'll be your moderator today.

I'm happy to report that we have our full compliment of Goodfellows with us today,

the three wise men of the Hoover Institution.

And those wise men are the historian Neil Ferguson,

economist John Cochran,

and former presidential national security advisor,

historian, geostrategist, all around good guy,

Lieutenant General, H.R. McMaster. Neil H.R. and John are all Hoover senior fellows, by the way.

Gentlemen, we're going to do two segments today. In our second block, we're going to talk about Iran and Israel and what happens next in the Middle East. But first, we're going to take a look at

immigration, something we haven't done in three years. And joining us,

making his return to Goodfellows, is Rayhan Salam. Rayhan Salam is the president of the Manhattan Institute,

a research and advocacy group that advances opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in

America and its great cities. He's also the author of The Belting Potter Civil War, published in

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