Welcome to the reason roundtable your weekly libertarian podcast that's going to have

a bonus live evening episode in New York City on April 25th go to reason.com slash events

and purchase a ticket right now before they run out. I'm Matt Welch, joined by the traditional

starting lineup of Nick Gillespie, a returning Peter Suderman like Hank Greenberg after the

war and Catherine Mangy, you ward high friends. Howdy. Happy Monday. Hey, Matt. That's right.

Well, Nick, good thing you don't have any events scheduled in Midtown Manhattan tonight,

because you got that right, babe, because we're doing, we're doing some chatter, we're doing some

pepper here up. Yeah, now I, and you know, you listed me first in the starting lineup and I feel

like Omar Moreno. Yes, Matt Welch, and overestimated lead off hitter who really and just was not

very yet another Pittsburgh reference early in the podcast. Let's oh, I hate, I hate the pirates,

especially that thing. Wake up, Catherine. What former presidents and a former New York resident,

Donald J. Trump is coming back to Trump tower this very afternoon, we record these things,

by the way, people on Monday mornings, you receive them on Monday afternoon. He's coming back to

prepare for his long tease and actually now happening, arraignment in a Manhattan criminal court

on Tuesday, reportedly for dozens of charges related to him paying off porn actress Stormy Daniels,

$130,000 to keep quiet about the two of them making sexy time. This is as you will be hearing,

often the very first time a former US president has faced criminal charges after leaving office,

it would have probably happened to Richard Nixon, but his former vice president Gerald Ford

granted him a very controversial in its day preemptive pardon. It's also likely not to be Trump's

last time in the docket, the Justice Department has special counsel Jack Smith, if that's his real name,

looking into Trump's mishandling of classified documents, his connection to the January 6th

riots and also his stop the steel fundraising activities didn't realize that was a thing,

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