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To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Is Donald Trump the Real Speaker of the House?

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Charlie Sykes

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9719 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Charlie speaks with Charlie Dent, former Congressman from Pennsylvania and National Co-Chair of Our Republican Legacy. Together, they're trying to figure out whether Speaker Mike Johnson has a problem with women, what’s next for health care legislation, and just how much weaker Congress can get.

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0:00.0

I'm Charlie Sikes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. We have a new national security

0:23.6

strategy out that was dropped on Friday night if you haven't seen it. It's really, really a big deal.

0:28.2

It's not just a rejection of, say, Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. It's a rejection of the entire foreign policy of every single president since World War II. We're talking about

0:38.9

Truman and Eisenhower and Nixon and Kennedy and Bush. And it basically says we're throwing

0:47.4

Europe under the bus. It's loaded with culture war stuff. That basically gives Russia pretty much everything they want.

0:56.1

And, of course, the headline this morning is, you know, Russia is pretty pleased with all of this,

1:02.4

even as they continue to bomb Ukraine.

1:04.9

Meanwhile, a lot of speculation about what's going on in Congress.

1:08.3

So we have a very special guest, a veteran of Congress, a veteran commentator,

1:15.0

former Congressman Charlie Dent, who served for many years in the Pennsylvania legislature,

1:20.7

and for seven terms in Congress, you've probably seen them on CNN. Charlie, welcome to the program.

1:26.7

This will be the two Charlie,

1:28.0

the two Charlie podcast today. Well, that's great. Charlie just want you to know, I've been

1:33.5

mistaken for you more than a few times, especially when I put my glasses on. I've been told, oh, hey,

1:38.1

Charlie Sykes, how you doing? I said, that's nice, but I'm not Charlie Sykes. Thank you.

1:41.7

Okay, that's really weird you should say that that because I remember back in 2017 or 2018,

1:48.0

someone said, has anyone actually ever seen Charlie Sykes and Charlie Dent in the same

1:51.9

room at the same time?

1:53.1

I mean, is it possible?

1:54.3

So I don't know where this started, but, you know.

1:57.3

Separated at birth.

1:59.0

Yeah, well, I find it very, very flattering to be compared to you. Okay, so

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