Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discuss with the

Andy McCarthy the latest legal and national security issues this week. What else?

The latest on the impeachment inquiry and Jack Smith goes to the Supreme Court.

By the way, for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming service

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And now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside.

None other than.

Andy McCarthy.

Rich, how are you?

Good Andy, I'm glad to be back.

Jack Butler filled in manfully while I was in the hospital briefly for pneumonia.

I had pneumonia when I was out of the hospital for a while and actually discussed it with you on this

podcast like two weeks ago and like, Rich, you really got to take it easy.

And it's like, no, I'm on the Andy McCarthy plan.

I take it easy the way you do Andy, working through vacations, working through through illness and the next thing I do I

I'm in room 636 the local hospital.

The week after you're out ice skating which which is that what you want to be doing with pneumonia.

That was great. Yeah, long feeling better. Got great, great care and all was good and glad Jack filled in so well.

So let's go to this impeachment inquiry authorization.

Been a little, took some time to line up these votes several months but Kevin McCarthy promised

that he would actually pass it he didn't actually pass it himself but his successor Mike Johnson did.

So let's go big picture as is our want and then dive in.

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