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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

Hello, America, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here, the third hour of the program today.

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I got an angry email from someone who wanted to call in and couldn't get through to talk about something.

And I replied back very nicely and said, I have no interest in talking about the subject that you wanted to talk about it.

And it's not relevant to any news headlines. I say that's what Fridays are are for you get a little more looseness on on Fridays you can call in and talk about your preferred obscure topic on Friday today it's it's about the news of the day the headlines of

the day and the big news right now is jd vans speaking at the Munich security conference they're

having it in Washington DC he.C. He has been on

stage at a Q&A over the last little while. This was in the show notes because this conversation

actually happened just before noon today in Washington, being asked about the arrangement

between Russia and Ukraine. And he said something that is making news, if you

care to actually pay attention to it, despite all the hostility and all the claims that

Donald Trump is in the pocket of the Russians, then J.D. Vance is in the pocket of the Russians.

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