Colombia backs down and the CIA says it was a lab leak. We'll discuss all this and more. On 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 the sage of authenticity Woods. Jim Garrity, you are, of course, listening to a National Review podcast. Our sponsor of this episode is Donors Trust. More about them and due course. For some reason,

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So Jim Garrity, over the weekend, we have this massive yet short-lived diplomatic incident with Columbia,

where the Colombian president's pounding his desk saying we're not taking this deportation flight and these

military planes treating our people with such a lack of dignity. And Trump said, okay, then you'll

have your 25% tariffs. And after a week, if you're still defying us, they'll go up to 50%. And

the Colombian president says, bring it on, let's do this thing.

You know, I'm doing my own retaliatory tariffs. This is going to be awesome. We're not going to buckle

to the white enslavers. And then shortly thereafter, the foreign secretary comes, you know,

actually we'll take your deportation flights. What do you make of it?

Rich, I have to confess, I kind of really missed the entire brouhaha in part because I was

watching the Buffalo Bills lose to the Kansas City refs. And I, you know, my favorite minute of the

crisis, which lasted, what, 20 minutes, half an hour,

was actually the aftermath in which, you know, Colombia backed down, but the leader of that country,

Gustavo Petro, which, by the way, if I had used that name as a fictional dictator in one of my novels,

people would say it was a little over the top. When he goes on this long Twitter, pardon me, ex-tirate, in which he, in Spanish, you know,

but you can run it through Google Translate pretty quickly.

And he points out that he likes some parts of America, including Walt Whitman, Noam Chomsky, and Paul Simon.

Now, I very rarely... One of the three? Well, yeah, so here's the thing Simon. Now, I very rarely...

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