The Tom Woods Show, episode 811.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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to come. Check him out at tom's freebooks.com. Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Lou Rockwell comes back to the

show by popular demand. We're going to talk about

just some current events. What's going on in the news? Obviously, Donald Trump's always going to be in the news.

Some of the Trump appointments we might talk about, the whole Russia controversy. Let's just see what's

on Lou's mind. Of course, you know, Lou is the publisher of Lou Rockwell.com, which all the good people are reading every day.

He is the chairman of the Meases Institute, also its founder, mezes.org, M-I-S-E-S-D-org.

He also served as chief of staff to Ron Paul and all-around, a great guy and a great benefactor of mine, and I'm always delighted to talk to him. Lou, welcome

back to the show. Tom, great to be with you. I got some issues I want to raise with you, but we

were just talking, and I was starting to think out loud about all the dirt there must be on all

these Democrats. I mean, Republicans, too, but I'm just thinking about, given that the

Democrats were concerned about the hacking, they were the ones worried that something embarrassing

might get leaked. And it seems like when all is said and done, Lou, the Podesta emails were

mildly embarrassing, but earth-shattering.

Couldn't they have produced something, I don't know, better?

Well, you know, the idea that this was the Russians doing it, I think, is ridiculous.

I think it was clearly a WikiLeaks operation anymore,

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