Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Monkroyd podcast.

I'm Jared Yates Sexton.

I'm here at Nick Hausman, who is on vacation still showing up doing the work.

Well, hey, let's not make it sound like I'm on vacation still, like as if I'm always on vacation.

But I'm glad to be here, well-rested, very relaxed. I have a feeling that you might change that mood for me, though, Jared, unfortunately. Yeah, we got stuff to talk about. Man, we got people getting assassinated. We've got the media going after the president. We got to talk about all that. We also are going to welcome on to the podcast later on, Alan Marks,

who is a partner at Milbank, LLP, and the host of the podcast Law Policy and Markets and a contributor

to Forbes. We're going to talk about the Supreme Court's disastrous ruling against the EPA.

But before we do, Nick, over in Japan, the former prime minister, Shenzhou Abe, was assassinated.

It killed while giving a speech at Nara, Japan, for his liberal Democratic Party.

Shock waves throughout the system.

I fear, unfortunately, with the way that our political environment is going right now. This is something that

we're maybe going to have to get used to seeing politicians suddenly get attacked. But this is a

really, really bizarre thing, not only for the act itself, but where it took place and who unfortunately

got killed here. People might not be completely on top of Japanese politics. So he wasn't in power.

But I think my initial response was, yes, he was. And then I was like, well, how was the

Prime Minister of Japan, like just standing on a street with very little security? It sounded

like it was very impromptu. But I think the point is, is that, you know, the guy that shot him had

to make his own gun. It was a two-shooter. That was the most you could shoot out of that thing.

And, you know, basically, it was made it, it was very simple and easy for him to do, unfortunately.

Listen, the past couple episodes, we have been, we've been stretching our wings at the

Muckrake podcast.

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