I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. Well, apparently Armageddon has been

postponed somewhat. We have peace in our time, at least for now, at least for today. Donald Trump

backs down from his threat to erase a civilization. Now, of course, Donald Trump is, and you knew

that he would do this, Donald Trump is saying this was a great victory. This is going to usher in the

golden age for Iran. Everybody else was looking at the deal goes, wait, wait, wait. This looks like a, not just

your normal taco. This looks like a fundamental strategic defeat. And the question is, is this

deal going to hold? You know, what happens when it falls apart? When, in fact, people look at the details of the deal, are they going to realize, Donald, this is the art of the Iranian deal, not the art of your deal. So there is a lot of ground to cover. And meanwhile, we have J.D. Vance, campaigning for Victor Orban, basically side by side with Vladimir Putin in Hungary.

And we need to talk about what's going on in the Department of Justice, because that should not be below the radar screen.

So let's get into it.

And joining me on today's podcast is Scott McFarland, by the way, who, you know, welcome to Substack, welcome to Midas Touch.

One of the, I guess you're part of the CBS diaspora.

Would you describe it that way?

I'm an expatriate of CBS News, and those five years there were wonderful, but it's time for a new

adventure.

Well, let me talk to you about that, because this was big news when you left, you were one of the

senior correspondents, one of the most recognizable faces in CBS News, and then you basically said, yeah, I want to move on with my life.

I want to go over to Substack.

And within a couple of days, you were named the chief correspondence for might as such.

So just giving your sense of like, you know, your path.

And because it says something about the media that you would leave CBS News to come over here

to substack. So can you just tell me a little bit about your thought process and how you made that

particular jailbreak? Yeah, the first thing I had to do was convince my wife that this is a good

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