Welcome to Begg to Differ, the Bull Works weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bull Works and I'm joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and Wall Street Journal.

Damon Linger who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground and Linda Chavez

of the Nascannon Center.

Our special guest this week is John Prado, the U.S. editor of the Economist newspaper.

And it's hard for me to say the Economist newspaper because to us Americans, it looks

and feels like a magazine.

But for many years of being a reader and consumer of their products, I know that they refer

to it as a newspaper.

Welcome, one and all, John.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you.

It's great to be in such distinguished company.

Ah, thank you.

We are recording on Thursday afternoon.

The actual indictment has not dropped yet, but we think it is imminent.

Trump received a letter saying that he is indeed the target from Jack Smith and according

to a variety of different reports, the possible criminal statutes that he may have violated

include two that we are familiar with because they were referred to by the January 6th Committee.

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