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 yet

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Annie McCarthy rich how are you the miracle of Riverside none other than Andy McCarthy

Rich how are you good Andy how are you I'm good have good news for people who followed my football picks last week

There's only four games this week. So it's impossible for

me to get five wrong out of six again. So yeah well this is this is the reason I never do any picks because I know I'll always be

Embarrassed but I would have been tempted to go to my betting app and take all your your picks Andy but I didn't do I didn't get it around to it so my wallet's a little heavier for it.

Yeah, good advice to take for yourself.

All right, so but I would bet on any of your legal predictions, Andy, which of you have a much better record.

So let's go to the Gene Carroll trial, Trump, you know, Rompson, Iowa, and then immediately this is the next thing he does is show up at this

latest trial which is a defamation case and and things got a little heated a little

heated in the courtroom. What happened, Eddie? It's a little testy. It's a little testy.

So you have all these young pups together in the room, you know, we've got Gene Carroll who's 80 Trump who's 77

Judge Kaplan I think is 77 or 78 he was appointed by Bill Clinton who by the way is 77. So you know as a

Boomer special. Yeah as a boomer myself I think it's time for all these guys to go away and I think I'm entitled to to say that but since they're all going to be with us we have to pay attention to the circus for another week or so.

So this thing, the fact that it's in a second trial

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