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Morning, Gloria, and evening, Grace, America. Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod. We got a lot to cover today with John Ellis. We are talking about,

among other things, AI. I mean, he's talking as well with Matt Continentie of the Wall Street

Journal and Ben Dominance of Fox News about a whole bunch of things, including the Venezuelan

tanker operation. What's going to happen next with Maduro? What about the, quote, AI trade? What about President Trump's numbers? The election of a Democrat mayor in the city of Miami for the first time in 30 years. Democrats to be jubilant, Republicans to be alarmed. I don't think so. It's really kind of a small electorate, and I don't think you can draw any conclusions from that. But stick around. We'll also have Doug Les Maris. We usually talk football. This week we're talking the implosion of the Michigan football program. But at a high level, it's a pretty tragic story. We're not going to do Schroden Freud. We're not into that. But we'll talk about the implications for college football with Doug Lae Marys. All of that is ahead on the big weekend pod.

Thank you for listening.

Welcome back, America.

I'm Hugh Hewitt.

That's Frank Sinatra.

He'd be 110 today if he were still alive.

And this is Matt Contenetti, columnist for the Wall Street Journal,

back in the jail cell, Stasi Central, at AEI.

I was going to ask if you had left AEI, Matt, but you haven't, obviously.

Or they won't let you leave, which is it?

They'll have to drag me out of here, Hugh.

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