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Glory and Evening Grace, America, on this Christmas Eve, Eve. I'm Hugh Hew. At the big headline

of the day, of course, 4.3% GDP growth in the third quarter of this year. Trumponomics is back and the country is indeed booming. Four percent growth is really, really good. Nobody saw that coming. We'll talk with David Bonson, who I had scheduled for other reasons about that number in hour number two today.

I got Dr. Michael Oren from Israel in hour three.

I got Eli Lake, Admiral Mark Montgomery, David Drucker.

But I want to start by doing two things.

I'm going to beat up on Minnesota, Governor Tim Walts in just a minute, big target there, and on the DFL and on the state government of Minnesota cold and

maybe Chad the elder maybe everybody in Minnesota cold the the Northern Alliance of

bloggers I know you're up there Mitch I know you're still at it I've been on AM 1280 the Patriot

for 25 years so I know my way around the Gopher State.

But first, I got to settle a dispute.

A lot of people online have been saying, if Andrew Breitbart was alive, he would say X.

I knew Andrew.

Andrew was a friend of mine.

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