I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. We are still at war with Iran, despite what the president has been saying. We're sending more troops there. The president is also at war with the Pope, along with J.D. Vance. And J.D. Vance, I read about this in my newsletter yesterday. I still can't quite get over. J.D. Vans, first of all, saying that the Pope should stay in his lane, you know, the kind of the shut up and dribble line from Flora Engram, you know, you ought to stick to areas like morality. And then he goes down to this T.P. USA, you know, rally that nobody showed up at

and suggests that the Pope needs to be very careful when he talks about theology. This from

J.D. Vance.

So I have to admit I'm a little obsessed by the incredibly shrinking, bizarre, flailing

vice president.

Meanwhile, Trump's campaign of retribution continues.

It continues to target Jerome Powell, the head of the Fed.

And what is going on with the Department of

Justice these days? Let's get into it.

Who better to get into it this week with all the things that are going on than our good friend

Harry Littman from talking feds a

substack. Harry, good to have you back again. Always great to be with you, Charlie. I really don't

know where to begin. So let's begin with, I mean, you know, everybody else is talking about Hungary and

they're talking about the war in Iran. I want to talk about, you know, some of the weird stuff that's

going on with the Department of Justice.

And there's too many things that fall between the cracks.

So let's at least at the top, not let certain things fall between the cracks.

So a little light sedition apparently is okay with this new DOJ.

The Department of Justice is moving to vacate the convictions

of the, because of the proud boys, right? The proud boys who were convicted of the most serious,

the most serious assailant from January 6th. Yeah, I mean, this is all part of the rewriting of history,

right? The cleaning of the, of the, you know, following up from day one, this is all part of the rewriting of history, right? The cleaning of the,

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