Welcome to the McCarthy Report where Rich Lowry discusses with

Andy McCarthy the legal national security issues of the day.

Rich is out today so I Jack Butler submissions editor at National Review online am in the enviable position of being able to ask Andy McCarthy directly things

that I would usually just read his articles to be informed about and to keep straight because it's very dizzying and confusing.

I don't know how I would navigate it all without him.

So thank you for joining us today on the McCarthy Report, which I guess is customary for you to do but thank you regardless

Jack thank you for being here I'm so happy you're here because rich originally told me it was going to be

Veeke oh I didn't know whether I didn't know whether I didn't know whether I'd be up to the barrage of Vvek.

Well we got we got a different alumnus of St. Xavier High School.

Might as well let that cat out of the bag that we went to the same high school.

Many years apart, we never overlapped, but it's just a fun little fact that I can dish out from time to time.

Well, I'm glad you mentioned that as well because I should tell everyone that my high school, and this was widely covered in the New York Post last week,

won the New York State Football Championship last week, Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx,

and it was an amazing story because apparently they had to play every game on the road

because the city refused to repair McComb's Dam Park, which is outside Yankee Stadium and outside Cardinal Hayes High School,

but the field is in such bad condition that the team couldn't practice there.

So they had to play every game on the road throughout the season and had this miraculous

season where they not only won their division but went on to win the whole

state championship so everybody's pretty pumped up about that.

I look forward to the film adaptation of their season.

It sounds ready made for one.

Absolutely.

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