It's Friday, October 17th, 2025.

We've got a Friday five pack of news stories and ask or tell me anything that's next on the AM update.

Well, for the ever dwindling numbers of you who are able to catch the AM update in the AM, thanks to Apple and a combination of Apple and liberated syndication.

I appreciate you listening, nonetheless.

I'll have more to say on what's going on with the ever erratic timing of when each

episode of the AM update drops.

I really won't have any updates for you. Just some belly aching.

That's basically what I'm saying. In the meantime, though, it's a Friday five-pack.

Five stories caught my eye to begin this Friday morning. John Bolton, John Bolton, former national

security advisor for President Trump during the first

Trump administration, has been indicted by a federal jury for mishandling classified

information.

He is in deep trouble from what it looks like.

According to the federal indictment against him, he not only stored thousands of pages

of classified documents at his home

long after his government employment ended. He actually shared that classified info with multiple

people who were uncleared, unclear for security clearance via unsecured Google and AOL email.

So it looks like Mr. Bolton with those great eyebrows and that walrus-ish mustache is up the

creek. He has been indicted. President Trump reacted to the news for the first time he hadn't heard

it at the White House yesterday. Just indicted by a grand jury in Maryland. Do you have a reaction to that?

I didn't know that. You tell me for the first time, but I think he's, you know, a bad person.

I think he's a bad guy, yeah. He's a bad guy. It's too bad, but it's the way it goes.

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