All right, I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It's Friday, April 17th, which means it's time for another Friday roundtable extravaganza. And joining me, I can't believe this, but are both first time guests, one, the host of News Nations, Katie Pavlitch

tonight, Katie Pavlach, and an author at The Christian Post, Mikhail Olson. Guys, welcome to the show,

and before we do anything here, I want Mikhail to quickly introduce himself, but Katie, I don't know

how you have not been on this show before. You mentioned to me right before we started, Fox had you under lockdown. It was hard for you to do other appearances. But this is very, very long overdue. So I'm happy to have you on. I'm happy to be here. So thanks for having me. And, Mikhail, you have been absolutely on fire on X. I started following you about six months ago amidst some of the

craziness on the right. And you've just been one of the great communicators as to what's really

been going on here. Maybe for just 20 or 30 seconds, you can just tell the audience a bit about

yourself and then we'll dive in. Yeah. So I started contributing over at the Federalist about

2024, kind of mid-20204. I did that for a few months. And then I got hired over at Not the Bee as a newswriter, kind of contract newswriter over there. I did that for almost a year and stopped doing that somewhat recently. And now I'm primarily just over at the Christian Post, writing about the woke right and Christian nationalism and all

of this fun stuff that we've all been dealing with for the last year or two. So, yeah. Excellent.

All right. Let's leave that there. We'll dive in to the week that was, we'll start with the scandals.

Eric Swalwell, a man who for years, literally years, everyone has known banged a Chinese spy named Fangfang.

That's not even what's taking him out.

It's now all of these other accusations of rape and drugging women and a series of other things.

The video that leaked where there were several people in the room where they think at least one of the people was a sex worker, and it's like who the hell was taping that thing and somebody might be underage.

I mean, it's just an absolute, it's like a little bit of everything here.

Here's Caroline Levitt responding to some of the flip-flopping around Ruben Gallego

and some of the other Democrats, Ruben Gallego, who said he was Eric Swalwell's best friend.

Look, I think the accusations and allegations against former Representative Swalwell are

despicable and disgusting. I think it's also quite plausible, as you point out, Jack,

that there were many other Democrats in this town on Capitol Hill who knew about his perhaps illegal

behavior certainly his disgusting and inappropriate behavior and why were they

silent for so long I think those are questions that must be raised of these

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