I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the contrary podcast. In my newsletter yesterday, I started off with the three scariest words in the English language, three years left. But Donald Trump's poll ratings are now down to 36 percent, according to the AP. And I think over the last week, we got an indication that his administration is not

overly stacked with the best and the brightest. So where are we? We have a lot to talk about

this weekend. And joining me on our weekend podcast, our good friend David From from the

Atlantic and the host of the David From show. David, thank you for coming

back on the podcast. Thank you. I'm a little nervous to be recording on Friday the 13th and even more

nervous. This is the day before Valentine's Day, one of the most fraught days in the annual

calendar, if not possibly, is dangerous. Dangerous. I call it, I've often said that for men, it's like New Year's Eve only with

nuclear weapons. Yes. And you know, you're right. This is one of the most fraught days. I mean,

not only is it February 13th, and by the way, I'm going to confess that I probably wouldn't get on an airplane

today. It's completely irrational, but we have those genes in our head. Well, okay, so we have

so much to talk about this, this week, whether we're talking about the withdrawal from Minneapolis,

the walk back on the tariffs, the latest stories about Christy Knom, Pam Bondi's extraordinary

meltdown before Congress. But I thought we just start off with it with a pallid cleanser

along the lines of, you know, the, we talked a lot about the brutality and the venality and

the extremism of the administration. I think it's also worth pointing out just the complete

incompetence and nuttiness. And you probably caught, well, I know that

you caught, this very interesting moment where Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of the

Department of Health and Human Services, is on a podcast, and he's talking about one of his former

habits. This is what he had to say. And I said, I'm not scared of a germ. You know,

I used to snort cocaine off a toilet disease. Okay, David, your thoughts. Well, I'm not any kind

of drug user and never have been, but according to the movies, I always thought that cocaine was cut up on little

elegant mirrors and sniffed through $100 bills. It was a dangerous habit. It was a habit that led

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