Hey folks, Preet here. Joyce is off this week, so I'm joined by my friend and colleague Barb McQuaid for a new episode of The Insider podcast.

Barb is a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, a law professor at the University of Michigan, co-hosts of the Sisters in Law Podcast, and a monthly columnist here at Cafe.

We discussed the U.S. airstrikes targeting alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and the Pacific,

President Trump's lawsuit against the Justice Department,

and the latest on National Guard deployments in Democratic-led cities.

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Now, on to the show. You picked. I let you as the guest pick what topic we would cover

first, the Venezuela Strikes. And we were discussing a moment before we hit the record button

what the volume of strikes has been. Just to remind folks, these have been preemptive,

military targeted strikes on boats, ships, you know, watercraft that the administration claims

are being manned by individuals who are engaged in the drug trade,

cartel drug trade, and they are authorized to engage in such strikes. We'll talk about what the

rationale for that is and what the basis for it is and whether it's written or not written.

But can we just do a little bit of a history of the strikes? And we were debating, because

the news keeps changing, whether it's 10 or 11 so far. I think we're recording this in the 10

a.m. hour on Tuesday morning. By the time this airs, it may be, maybe more. From our fantastic

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