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

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

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

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

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

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

even as they continue to bomb Ukraine.

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

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

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

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

This will be the two Charlie,

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

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

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

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

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

room at the same time?

I mean, is it possible?

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

Separated at birth.

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

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