Welcome back, everyone to the new episode of Your Rock with Molly Hemingway,

editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani's senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email us,

please do so at Radio at the Federalist.com. We'd love to hear from you. How's it going, Molly?

Where are you? I'm in New York, and I do want to apologize for the 20 minutes I spent trying to set up my microphone and failing.

So I hope everyone can hear me.

But yeah, I'm in New York doing some stuff for Fox this week and also a, not a debate,

but like a discussion with Doug Schoen, who's a Democrat pollster and strategist type.

That'd be interesting.

Let's first start with, I think the big news this week was Vance's speech in Munich for

the Munich Security Council, correct?

So he basically attacked Europe, right?

I mean, you know, he, I wouldn't say an attack on Europe.

He said that really the main danger or the central

danger is from within, not from without. So I think he's speaking about Russia, probably, and even China.

He's saying that the two main reasons are censorship and mass immigration, right? Is that fair to say?

Well, yeah, I think the censorship component was partly about freedom of speech. It was also about

freedom of religion and attacks on freedom of religion. But everyone goes to this Munich Security

conference for backpats and everyone being told that what we're doing is great. And so for the last

several years, it's all been about how Russia is an existential threat to the rest of the world,

and how we all need to fight this proxy war in Ukraine if we love democracy.

And so he goes and he says, so if you love democracy, you need to start respecting elections.

He mentions the Romanian election that they just decided not to accept based on a very flimsy

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