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Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Noah Rothman returns ahead of Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin to give a foreign policy progress report of the president's second term. He gets into the fraught history of US-Russia negotiations, applauds the latest maneuvers in the Middle East, and applies a big-picture framing of the geopolitical status quo in response to the charge that collapse is imminent.

Plus, Charlie, Steve, and James discuss the federalization of law enforcement in D.C. and the administration's announcement of potential weed reform.

Sound from this week's open: President Trump and House Minority Leader Jefferies on DC police “scheme.”

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0:00.0	I can't believe that Trump hasn't thought of doing Trump-branded Social Security bracelets.
0:04.9	That would be the obvious extent, right?
0:06.4	Yeah.
0:07.1	So you've fallen, you can't get up.
0:10.2	So, okay, are we ready?
0:11.8	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:16.6	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:19.5	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:24.9	It's the Rurkishay podcast with Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward.
0:29.2	I'm James Lallax.
0:30.1	Today we talked to Doa Rothman about, well, basically, the world.
0:34.3	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:36.6	Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the
0:39.6	United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what
0:46.3	that is? I stand with the people of Washington, D.C. I stand with Mayor Bowser, and we are strongly
0:51.8	supporting their efforts to stop this scheme. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we are strongly supporting their efforts to stop this scheme.
0:55.4	This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back.
1:02.1	Welcome, everybody, to the Rurcchet podcast, and which one is it? Why, you're right. It is episode
1:06.6	753. You can join us at Rickashay.com. You really can, and you can be part of the most stimulating conversations and community on the web, the place you've been looking for all these years. Forget Twitter, forget X, forget Facebook. You'll find your friends at ricochet.com. I'm James Lylex. I am joined as ever by Stephen Hayward in California, I presume, and Charles C.W. Cook in Florida, I presume.
1:29.4	And gentlemen, all eyes in the nation are turned to D.C., where the continuing toward
1:34.7	itarian fascist takeover continues to this day with people being arrested.
1:40.1	So the interesting thing about this to me is that there's a, as we keep saying,
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