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Rich Lowry discuss with the Andy McCarthy the latest legal and

national security issues this week what else the latest on Donald Trump

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Anymore.

Rich, how are you?

Good, we haven't talked, at least not on this podcast in a while.

Well, happy 2024.

Same to you.

Yeah.

Do you know, I realize this morning that we started the podcast in 2018 during the, uh, during the Mueller investigation which now feels like two

civil wars ago yeah but who'd have thought we'd still be talking about the same thing, Rich?

Exactly.

It adds up quickly.

So yeah, so we're still talking about Trump controversies and overreached by Trump's adversaries.

So we've been off two or three weeks here and a lot of course has happened.

So what is famous last words, words Andy when we were figuring out

our schedule and deciding to take two weeks off. I think I you know I think things are

going to settle down. I can't I can't remember how many times you've said that and

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