It's Steve Schmidt here with the warning, and I am thrilled tonight to be joined by

veteran political journalist Ryan Lizza at Tellos.

I'd urge you to subscribe to Tell us.

There's some great journalism, some long-form journalism on there about an incredible abuse of power by

a MAGA lawyer.

Ryan's entanglement in it reads like a novel.

Today, Ryan had on Judge Michael Ludig, veteran, federal judge, one of the preeminent, conservative

legal minds of his generation, and a deeply principled believer in the rule of law, the American Constitution.

And you can see Judge Ludick and his appearance with Ryan, on Ryan's podcast, and

I encourage you to watch it because Judge Ludick is going to in that podcast

detail in a way that's very accessible, the lawlessness, the disregard for the Constitution

and all of those things. We're going to talk about that to kick off.

I wanted to make one initial point here as we begin the conversation tonight,

and it is I see one of our Canadian community members,

and I was walking into a Canadian grocery store earlier and every

item in that store is tagged with the Canadian flag to indicate if it is a Canadian product

and the pride of the country with regard to its prime minister is palpable.

And we're going to talk about Mark Carney tonight as a portraiture of leadership and the oppositional

character traits that he has to so much of the Washington, D.C. Democratic establishment,

smart, able, obviously non-competulant.

And I thought, and we'll start this,

I do have one fact check in the old spirit of things

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