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The Ricochet Podcast

Fighting Political Punctilios with...Fire

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you've just had enough. Bill Barr, two-time Attorney General and author of One Damn Thing After Another, knows the feeling. He joins James, Steve, and Charles today to discuss the legal grounds for the extraordinary rendition of Nicolás Maduro and the options available to federal law enforcement as the Twin Cities tiptoe around an insurrection. 

The trio speculates on whether the US is reversing its position on Iran, considers the supposed price tag on a Greenland buy, and James declares that he has absolutely no opinion on the new Star Trek series. Not a one. Zip, zero. Don't bother asking...

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0:00.0

You had to ask.

0:00.9

You had to ask.

0:01.7

Of course I had to ask. I mean, that was obvious, right? I didn't know you were a big trekky. Oh, God, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. It's the Rickshay podcast. I'm James Lillick.

0:21.4

Charles C.W. Cook is here.

0:22.8

Stephen Hayward is here.

0:23.8

And we talk to former Attorney General Bill Barr about just about everything.

0:28.1

So let's have ourselves a podcast.

0:30.8

Vice out now.

0:32.6

Let me say once again to Donald Trump and Christy Knoem.

0:37.3

End this occupation.

0:38.3

Let's be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement.

0:43.3

Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.

0:50.3

This domestic act of terrorism to use your vehicle to try to kill law enforcement officers is going to stop.

0:56.3

And I'm asking the Department of Justice to prosecute it as domestic terrorism.

1:00.3

Welcome, everybody. It's the Rikershay podcast number 772.

1:04.3

Why don't you? You can be part of the most stimulating conversations and community on the web.

1:10.4

I'm James Lillings in Minneapolis, peaceful, sane, oh, so ordinary Mayberry RFD, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1:17.4

And I'm joined, of course, by Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward, and we're going to go right to our guest, Bill Barr.

1:23.5

An American attorney, author of one damn thing after another.

1:26.7

He served as the United States Attorney General twice, once under George H.W. Bush,

1:31.8

and again under Donald Trump of the president's first term.

1:34.4

Before heading to the DOJ, Barr worked in the Office of Legal Counsel, where he penned an opinion

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