Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discussed with Andy McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues.

This week, what else? The latest on the Trump administration indictments.

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And now, without further ado, I welcome to

this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside, none other than Annie McCarthy.

Hey, Rich, how are you? Good, Andy. How are you? I'm fully recovered, I hope.

Oh, yes. You're sick for a couple days there. Oh, man, that was bad i don't you know i haven't run

fevers i used to run high fevers when i was a very small child but i sort of grew out of that

and haven't had something like this in like forever where you run a high fever and it goes on for

two or three days and then even after you're over that,

it's like eight million other things bother you.

But it was funny.

I had a great event yesterday at the Manhattan Institute,

a conversation with Danielle Sassoon,

the former Southern District of New York, U.S. attorney who performed

heroically in my view, and I think in the view of most people, in connection with the

Eric Adams case and the refusal to shut that down over nonsense.

But we had a nice lunch with a bunch of the people at Manhattan Institute, and we threw it around for questions, and somebody said to me, one of the first questions who turned out

to be a fan of the podcast, and he said, I have a problem with you

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