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This week, what else?

The war against Iran.

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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. Rich, how are you? Good, Andy.

You? I'm good. Country's crazy, but I'm fine. Yeah, got some big news. So what are your

initial impressions? Well, I really wish, you know, because of what I do,

I think a lot of legal questions come up about Trump launching us into a war. And, you know, we can get to all of that. But, you know,

I always think my first impulse with this kind of stuff and with a lot of stuff is that the

politics is more important than the legal niceties.

And I think Trump is going to regret,

and maybe this is just,

it's outside his skill set,

and it's just not something he can do in a sustained discipline way.

But there's a very good case to be made on war against Iran

and the necessity of doing this, which is not all that difficult to master the details of

and goes back 50 years.

And especially under circumstances where the administration knows that it's getting

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