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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

Greetings, conversationalists.

Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here.

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We've got to get to the John Bolton news here out of the gate.

We're waiting for the President of the United States, who said he would be speaking sometime around noon.

Let me give you my thoughts on the John Bolton situation.

I know John Bolton a little bit, and I am of two minds on this. And I'm not strident on either

one. Obviously, my initial gut reaction is that he's been a pretty vocal and open critic of the

president. I know people open critic of the president.

I know people who worked in the president's first term who are afraid of harassment this term and their critics and they keep their mouths shut or they try to be loyalists as publicly

as they can because they're worried about being bullied by the president and his team.

And obviously the gut reaction

of people on television is that, oh, this is Donald Trump silencing his critics. He's an

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