Good morning, welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I am Charlie Sikes. It is Monday, which means

I am joined by my colleague, Will Salitan. You have a great weekend? Will?

I did, Charlie. I did. It's lovely out here. It's the Washington Spring, our three weeks

of spring. Okay, so I am three time zones away from you right now. I'm in an undisclosed

location in a desert community where it was 95 degrees yesterday, 95. Don't can

me the stuff about try heat. That's just freaky hot. Yeah.

Charlie, you're from Wisconsin. You think that 50 is hot. And what is your point? One of

the bartenders of the event I was at was complaining it hasn't been warm here. I mean, it was in

the 50s. It's been in the 50s for days. And I see, you know, I'm from Wisconsin 50. That's

spring. That is spring here. Of course, here in Phoenix, that's not the undisclosed location,

but they only have two seasons hot and hotter. So I think we're getting into the hotter.

Okay, we have so much to talk about today. I want to talk about something I wrote about

in my morning shots newsletter about a best-selling author Richard North Patterson, who's

been a contributor to the Bullwork. It is an amazing story and a really disturbing story

that people haven't seen it. I would encourage them to read it. He wrote us an email over

the weekend and had an essay in the Wall Street Journal. I want to get to that in a moment.

This is going to be a big week. Joe Biden is going to announce probably tomorrow that he

is running. There are a lot of poll numbers out suggesting that Americans are not exactly

jazzed about this prospect. I don't know whether that's going to mean anything. Since

you and I spoke will, the Supreme Court late on Friday made a ruling on the abortion pill.

They sort of backed away from the edge. We have Ron DeSantis speaking to the Heritage Foundation.

There's a lot going on. Kevin McCarthy bringing a debt ceiling vote to the House of Representatives.

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