The Prince of Peace

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The executive branch's ambitious prosecutors have made first strikes against familiar, yet evasive, foes. That means it's time to bring back John Yoo — legal scholar, gastronome, Eagles fan — to parse through the Comey indictment, jurisprudence regarding domestic terror, and the legitimation of using military force against Venezuelan drug runners.

Plus, Steve, Charlie, and James nod along to Trump's riff at the U.N. General Assembly but remain wary of the big warning against a common pain reliever.

Sound clip from this week's open: President Trump goes off script at the U.N.

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0:00.0	Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
0:08.1	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:13.4	It's the Rickusay podcast with Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward. I'm James Lillix,
0:17.8	and today we talk to our old friend, John, you about just everything.
0:22.0	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:24.0	And I don't mind making the speech without a teleprompter because the teleprompter is not working.
0:34.6	I feel very happy to be up here with you, nevertheless.
0:38.8	And that way you speak more from the heart.
0:42.6	I can only say that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.
0:50.6	Welcome, everybody.
0:51.7	It's the Rickusay Podcast number 759.
1:12.1	I'm James Lylex in Minneapolis, which is absolutely stunningly beautiful at the moment, fall, just beginning to manifest itself in the tips of the leaves. And in those places where the summer is eternal and nothing ever changes. California, Stephen Hayward, Florida, Charlie Cook, and as I say, we've got the whole country covered.
1:14.3	Greetings, gentlemen. How are you today?
1:18.2	Doing well. Good. I'm good to hear. Good, good.
1:24.5	Well, I assume now that the escalator is moving and taking us up and that we may enter the hall and speak and our teleprompters, well, we don't have them. But if we did, do either of you think that you could expostulate for 40 minutes or so? I tend to believe that the president could. I don't know how long his teleprompter was off during the UN address. I did read a good deal of it. I saw a tweet from somebody who had characterized it as a series of just
1:44.9	you know, sort of self-aggrandizing little me, me, me, me, me, me, give me a ward. And I thought,
1:49.2	well, that might be so. And then I went and looked at the actual speech. There is a lot of putting
1:54.8	the stick to some of the countries for various things that the president does not agree with.
2:00.7	But the end of it was a rather
2:01.8	stirring call in defense of Western civilization. It was the scripted part, you can tell. But it was,
2:08.4	we have a beautiful thing that we have inherited here, and it is our responsibility, duty,
2:13.1	and joy to maintain it. But, but, but, but, but, but, immigration. That was one of the things of which
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