Episode 324: Pressure Builds
The McCarthy Report
National Review
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lorry, discuss with Andy McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues. This week, what else? The Bondi Beach Massacre and the |
| 0:22.7 | pressure campaign against Maduro. If for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming |
| 0:26.8 | service, by the way, can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. And please give this podcast |
| 0:31.3 | and Andy McCarthy the glowing, indeed gushing five-star reviews that they deserve wherever you listen |
| 0:36.0 | to podcast. |
| 0:42.7 | And now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside, |
| 0:44.8 | none other than Annie McCarty. |
| 0:46.3 | Rich, how are you? |
| 0:47.3 | Good, Andy, you? |
| 0:50.7 | Well, I was dead. |
| 0:51.9 | I was just dead. |
| 0:54.2 | But now I'm like the hottest thing ever. |
| 0:56.7 | Like nobody's ever seen anything like Disney. |
| 1:00.3 | So yeah, I gather you didn't like the speech? |
| 1:03.3 | I just thought it was very peculiar. |
| 1:05.7 | I don't know who thought that was a good idea. |
| 1:07.4 | I got the impression. |
| 1:08.6 | I haven't seen this. |
| 1:15.0 | I know I heard this in some early reporting like the day before. And I don't know if this was like speculation about what Tucker was up to or whatever. |
| 1:20.1 | But the idea was that Trump had duped the networks into covering this thing, which was really just one of his, |
| 1:31.5 | it was, if he had done it like a regular rally speech where he riffs off the script, |
| 1:36.6 | it would have been probably much better than it was. In this one, it was like a rally speech, |
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