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hi John senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi John no or Rothman's long-deeded vacation

concludes today so he is not with us but with us Washington commentary columnist Matt

continuity hello Matthew how are you and well thanks for having me good so Matt is also at

at AI and American Enterprise Institute and was the founding editor of the free beacon and a long time

staffer at the weekly standard Matt I got I want to start by apologizing a little bit to to yesterday's

podcast audience because we did something you really shouldn't do which is that we ended up having

like a 20-minute conversation about a Supreme Court decision that we hadn't read and then speculating

on its political impact without even knowing at the time that the decision came down that there was

a second decision that was going to follow it which you know made complicated and made actually the

entire story far more interesting about whether or not Trump's taxes of Trump material could be

subpoenaed first by the Manhattan District Attorney and then by Congress and the court in you know

272 decisions split on the notion that he was not above the law so he could not deny state you know

state-level prosecutors subpoena but that the separation of powers did not give

Congress unlimited access to whatever materials it might want from the co-equal president of the

United States so this was a very interesting decision we end up having a conversation about

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