Well, hello again and welcome back to the Bill Bennett show or to New

Lister's, welcome to the first time. We try to offer thoughtful conversations about

things that matter with interesting guests. We try to expose the existential

threats to America even if they're from the White House. And we discuss the news

the day. I think that's funny, yeah. Yes, that's so funny. Right, I mean, it's not

so funny when it's, when it's, you know, when you say it, it's funny. We'll also

hear today from Joel Farcus. He's the director of the American Strategy Group. I

am a fellow of the American Strategy Group here in Washington. And I'm in

Washington today with Claude. I am in Washington. That's with you. And we just

stayed at Subway or just stayed from Subway. Yeah, I had the foot long ham and

cheese some bacon on there and I had the six inch tuna fish. Correct. No bacon on

that. No, I was the only one who got that. Joining me today also is our

for good friend Mark Davis. We're Mark from the Morning in America show. He's

them. I'm calling all the time. He's host of the Mark Davis show. It's a it's

a great radio show. You can catch his work on townhall.com as well. And Dallas

News.com. Mm-hmm. Yes. Delighted to have Claude here in person with me. Let

it have me here in person. Yes. In DC as well. It's been a while. Right. You're in

New York at the US Open the tennis. Yeah, working US Open Radio. And then you're

in Seattle. Right on another project. Breaking windows and burning buildings. That's

not what I was doing. Claude really now. No, I wasn't doing any of that. I saw a guy

look like he out there. No, terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Sorry. What were you doing

out there? Also out there doing a doing a project. It was really short and simple. But

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