Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

It is Monday.

So we're here with editor at large Bill Crystal.

Bill was good to see you and everybody in person last week

in D.C. We all got together. Things are bad for the country, but doing pretty good in

Bullworkland, you know, which is attention internally. It is a problem. It is a problem. We have to be

proud of what we're doing and cheerful to see new friends and colleagues and such a nice group of people, honestly.

So on the one hand, one's cheerful.

On the other hand, one doesn't want to be too cheerful, if you know what I mean.

Yeah.

Well, I returned to New Orleans to some less cheerful updates.

And in the meantime, while we were on D.C. last week, the little fellow, Greg Bovino, had invaded

the city. He did this kind of like frog marching tour around the French quarter, but has

spent most of the time up in Kenner, which is the area out by the airport, basically, if you

have ever flown into New Orleans,

you know, it's kind of like not the near suburb, but the next kind of suburb out.

And it's a big immigrant community.

And yesterday there was a protest out in the kind of parking lot where they'd been staging stuff.

And it's just, it's brutal.

But I don't know, Bill, what have you been kind of seeing from afar on the immigration stuff? And I'll tell folks about New Orleans. Yeah, I'd like to hear what it's like on the ground because, yeah, I've seen a few clips and they seem relentless and just going to city after city. They started in cities, I just point out, I guess there was some plausible local grounds for complaint. Well, there weren't really because they were no one in L.A. wanted them in and no one in Chicago, one of them. It was at least conceivable that things are out of control. We need these federal troops in or federal. We need more ISIS and border patrol people. Is that at all been the case in New Orleans? Is anyone? No. Yeah, it's ridiculous. They don't even have a rationale.

And the only rationale that they have put forth that I have seen for coming to New Orleans

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