and Is democracy about to die in darkness? Does anyone know where Lloyd Austin is right

now and has Mike Johnson?'s a speaker of the house remember

Wown it already we'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors I'm

Rich Lowry and I'm joined as always by the right Honorable Charles C. W. Cook

Noah Noah Rothman and live from a very snowy Des Moines, Iowa,

the sage of Authenticity Woods.

Jim Garrity, you are of course listening to a National You podcast.

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So Jim you have jetted out to Des Moines where a blizzard is hitting literally as we speak here Tuesday morning.

This is just a preview for the Arctic Blast that's about to follow up and

plunge it to zero degrees or below as Caucus Day approaches and this is the state although we haven't seen a poll and a long time

two or three weeks where Donald Trump leads by about 30 points on the other hand New Hampshire

Nicki Haley is nipping at Donald Trump's heels according to some polling and I just looked at the weather and it's going to be like highs of 49 or 50 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

So defend your coverage choices, Jim.

What's going on?

What are you thinking?

So no, I am greatly regretting many of my life choices

at this moment. I would be doing man on the street interviews,

Rich, if there were any people on the streets, there are none. It was, you know, I went out,

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