I'm Charlie Sykes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. We're taping this on the Monday after Easter,

which means we're taping it before Donald Trump's press conference on Monday. So probably everything

that we thought was the big news might be changed. I still can't get past the fact I know it's ancient

history now that the president of the United States on Easter Sunday morning bleated this out, unedited.

Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.

There will be nothing like it, three exclamation points.

Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

Just watch, all in caps, exclamation point.

Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump.

Now, I read the unedited version of that, right?

The President of the United States actually dropped an F-bomb while he casually is suggesting

committing war crimes. And I understand that we've gotten numbed and in order to kind of the crazy

and the demented, but as I wrote yesterday, you know, on the continuum of deranged, this may be the

single most deranged post ever to come out from any president of the United States, including

Donald Trump,

and I concede that there's a lot of competition there. And yet, because this is where we are right now,

by the time you hear this podcast, that may actually be kind of ancient history because there's so

much else going on. So let's dive into the week.

All right, joining me on this episode of the podcast. We're very fortunate to have the Atlantic Sarah Fitzpatrick. By the way, welcome to the podcast, Sarah. Thank you for having me.

I have to read this bio.

You're a staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and the Department of Justice.

Before coming to the Atlantic, she, you, led award-winning investigations and special projects

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