Congratulations on making it through a yet another deplorable week. I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome

back to the To the Contrary podcast. It was a week of scandals, of course, cover-ups wagging the dog.

The arrest of Prince Andrew, which is a pretty good indication that at least in Great Britain,

no one is above the law, including members of the monarchy. And the king himself said

so. I mean, King Charles at one point said, said, yeah, let's let the law take its course.

Kind of ironic, isn't it, that we have been rejecting kings since 1776. And Americans thought

that we were the ones who were going to be the role models for the rule of law.

Instead, in the reign of Donald Trump II, very, very different picture.

So we have a lot to talk about this week.

And I apologize in advance, since we're pre-recording this, we may be at war with Iran, given what's in the Epstein files.

But who knows, we'll do it anyway.

And joining me for our weekend podcast, our good friend, Adam Kinziger.

Adam, how are you?

I'm good, buddy.

I just, you know, trying to dump buckets a lot around the world. But other

than that, I'm good. What about you? Yeah, I'm looking forward to maybe running into you this weekend. We're both going to be in Washington, D.C. for the principal's first conference. What a great group. You know, I'm just between the two of us. There's a lot of grifty groups out there. principles first is really has really been stand up from the beginning and i i got to give a lot of kudos to

he the two of us, you know, there's a lot of grifty groups out there. Principles first has really been stand up from the beginning, and I got to give a lot of

kudos to Heath Mayo and his team for putting this together.

And I'm going to be doing something on Saturday.

You're going to be doing something on Sunday.

Oh, I'm also going to be speaking to a group called Our Republican Legacy, which is a group of ex-ro, you know, well,

actually, people who are still kind of kind of cling on to that. And I'm trying to give a,

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