Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discuss with Andy McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues. This week, what else? The latest on the Gaza Peace Plan and Trump's National Guard deployments.

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And now, without further

ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside. None other than that,

Andy McCarthy. Rich, how are you? I'm not too bad, Andy. Disappointed Yankee outcome and the

ALDS against the Blue Jays, but so it goes. Yeah, I'm wearing my black armband for you.

I did watch it.

I was pulling for them.

I didn't watch the whole game, but I actually liked the pitcher.

I thought he was really good.

As you said, when we were talking about it, they just couldn't get the timely hit. Yeah, so it goes. So it's really good. As you said when we were talking about, they just couldn't get the timely hit.

Yeah. So it goes. So it's football season now, as far as I'm concerned. For you? For you? Well, not really. I mean, my team, my team is so bad. I heard they sent them out of the country, which gave me some relief. and then it turns out they sent him out of the country to play again on Sunday.

So it's like even worse.

So let's see. sent them out of the country, which gave me some relief. And then it turns out they sent him out of the country to play again on Sunday.

So it's like even worse.

So let's start with the Gaza peace plan.

So my hot take on the Gaza peace plan was it sounded great, had some worthwhile effects and would never happen.

So what could go wrong?

But now, lo and behold, Hamas is semi-accepted it, and Trump's considered this a full acceptance,

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