Welcome to the Bullwhip Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes and I am back. First of all, I just want to thank

everybody who sat in for me over the last week, Tim Miller, Mona Charen, JBL, and of course Amanda

Carpenter. By the way, Amanda Carpenter's new podcast need to know is just absolutely fantastic.

I mean, definitely elevating the podcast. So I appreciate all of that. And of course, there's always

that disorienting moment where you come back from a vacation or in my case, a vacation, family reunion,

birth of a new baby wedding, you know, saying goodbye to the French grandkids and all of that.

And then suddenly being back here and going, okay, what did I miss? What's happened in the world?

So we're going to talk about it. So Mike Murphy, thank you so much for helping me reenter our

dysfunctional world here. Well, if you have, you know, I would advise you as a friend to backtrack

and escape it because it's incredibly dysfunctional and depressing. If you've got any respite or

place of peace to go, I'd go there. It is just grim. I tried and then so the reentry is a little

bit traumatic. So, hey, for listeners who, the handful of you who do not know Mike Murphy, he's a

GOP strategist consultant, he's advised leading Republican politicians, including John McCain,

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mitt Ronnie, and co-director of the USC Center for the Political Future and most

important of all co-hosts of the podcast, Hacks on Tap, and fellow rage monster about American politics.

Is that fair? Oh, absolutely. I keep wondering why I don't turn green every time I see Trump and

like going a rampage and throw some trucks around because yeah, I'm a total rage monster these days.

So we can, I want to back into the, I'm sorry,

Rizabel Bullshit, by the federal judge in the case of Barra Laga. I mean, I suppose all we need

to do is just sort of play Bill Barr that when Bill Barr thinks that the judge blew it, you know,

it's bad. He says he can go some fox and he's like, the opinion I think was wrong and I think

the government should appeal it. It's deeply flawed in a number of ways. Yeah, when he's offended,

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