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Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.

I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, Glory, and Even Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt starting with a bang today. Senator Eric Schmidt has a great new book out. It's called

the last line of defense, how to beat the left in court. He joins me live. Senator, good to talk to you.

Are we sure that Missouri is still in the SEC? I just wanted to double check.

Yeah, 3 and 0 and got the Gamecocks at home on Saturday night. So maybe there was a Division A and Division B. I just keep missing it. Senator, this is a great book. This is a fabulous book. And I want to begin, hey, how did you get John Sauer? How did you find John Sauer? I listened to all of his argument. He's a fabulous advocate. Where'd you find him? You know what's unique about

John is? He's from, John is the St. Louis and like I am. And actually, the same age, I've known

John, he's an incredible talent. He's one of these guys. He's, he literally is the smartest lawyer

I've ever met in my whole life. And he's humble and he's hardworking. Those are rare

combinations. And he was my Solicitor General in Missouri and now he's the Solicitor General of the

United States. And a lot of the stories that we tell in the book, The Last Line of Defense, which I assumed

you would appreciate actually with the topics you always cover was really about the success we had in

taking on the left in the courtroom and kind of holding the line until

President Trump and reinforcements could arrive in Washington.

I want everyone to know that if they want the gory details of what Senator Schmidt calls the quote,

the censorship enterprise of the Biden administration, it's all right here in one chapter.

I'm not very often surprised,

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