Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review | 09-03-25

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

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Rich Lowry, Editor-In-Chief of National Review, calls into the program to discuss Venezuela’s Maduro regime, which he and others describe as a narco–terrorist cartel rather than a legitimate government. The discussion expands to U.S. cities, noting how federal action has sharply reduced crime in Washington, D.C., and contrasting it with persistent violence in Chicago and Baltimore. They touch on looming government shutdown drama in Congress, with Lowry dismissing it as political theater, and debate lingering conspiracy theories around Jeffrey Epstein’s death—Lowry arguing incompetence, not murder. Toward the end, Curtis Sliwa comes up, with Lowry acknowledging his uphill climb in NYC politics but praising him as incorruptible and consistent, while noting National Review recently published an article urging support for Sliwa against Zohran Mamdani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.3	But you mentioned Venezuela.
0:49.0	I think the award is up to 50 million now for Maduro.
0:52.0	Was that right?
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:53.8	And what are people forget about it? Maduro? Was that right? Yeah, yeah. And what are people forget about?
0:56.3	Maduro, all they call him a dictator because he is and all that.
0:59.2	He's not a government official.
1:00.5	In essence, we don't recognize the government is legitimate.
1:02.8	That is not a legitimate government.
1:04.1	What he is is the head of a drug trafficking logistics organization, a cartel, the cartel of the Sons, which is
1:14.0	basically run by the military.
1:15.2	They basically allow drug dealers, not just to move drugs through Venezuela, but to do so
1:20.1	using like military facilities.
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