the. U S is out, they ran deal erection item is out of office and on Blankenship is out of luck. We'll discuss this and more on this week's edition of the editors, I'm rich Lowry and I'm joined, is always by the right. Honourable Charles see w cook the notorious. be de Michael Brendan Dorothy and the recent write him so on. This is a national view. Podcast or sponsor this week is texture, and public service announcement. If you are listening to this podcast on national, you dot com, where delighted have you, but it would be better for us an easier for you if you made as part of your feed at stake Google play I tunes

or two in and if you like, what you hear here, please consider reviewing us on Itunes. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget, I said Anne So, Michael? You have had occasion to celebrate various departures and Trump foreign policy, but the with from the IRAN deal. Does this smack too much to you of a neo con revival I mean if you listen to a small little podcast, called right and writer from the free beacon you heard. A lot of happy cheers yesterday at this, this change of foreign policy and a lot of praising of trumps speed, saying it was harder line than even Michael Goldfarb wanted to go, which is cold here. It was really hard core and listen I very mixed feelings about Lee. the deal. I I basically accept the point that

it's not a treaty, so it makes it much easier to get out of it like that. Burma's legacy, it was a. It was a trump campaign. Promise make the point that around seems to be just flouting the deal and got a lot of the good stuff right at the front of it. Might problem is, I don't know what this How is next, I dont think you can rebuild the kind of sanctions regime. tiredly that was crippling IRAN. I dont know to believe about the stability of IRAN's regime right now, and I think, if you know people are basically celebrating that you know this. This helps put us on the path to war, and it you know, perhaps Sunday, and I think that would be a disaster, but listen autumn they dont from his tilting in his Middle EAST foreign policy towards our Middle EAST allies. Israel and Saudi Arabia,

away from Europe on this issue, so it that's, that's reasonable, calculate four based on where the pieces I now you're going to reasonable MIKE I'm up. I wasn't, I am listen. I am I mad about a matter The direction things are drifting with IRAN. I think it's bad, but because drifting towards confrontations, drifting towards like I'd, instructing to the point, the only answer left will be military strikes and then military. four eggs, I think, will mean more, and I dont know but the end result of that is going to be yet. I think that right This case for staying in the deal is reasonable, which is at You can have a good good things in the world. This is a flawed deal, but at least puts a lid for the time being, as far as we know on would be the most dangerous part of IRAN's aggression, which would be developing a nuclear weapon. Annetta had I'd things, it completely rotten deal

That's just it just pause. We don't even know whether there really abiding by it I nothing necessarily need to cheat on it, could so favourable to them, but we don't really know their military, We can't inspect so go back to the sanctions regime, and I think you re a key point. Just how realistic is it to go all the way back to sanction regime that was really biting was that was a big reason. They came back to the table, so Ryan to me this is you can throw this in a big bucket. What works Europe has identified failures of the of his predecessor and the prior conventional wisdom, but is not clear that he's fully thought through what what the old turned of strategy is There is a double case for staying in the deal, which is essentially this alone Us do not have to talk about and think about the iranian threat. That's the crudest version of that case.

it's actually not crazy insofar as hey we also on the other end of Asia, appoint their Walter Russell need made in North Korea. We have this other mountain crisis than you know. Let's try to deal with one of these crises At a time, That's the dumbest case. There is, however, a hawkish case for having remained in the deal which was made by can pull Of a high which, frankly may lead, sounds to me. The hawkish case is look. We don't want to be divided from our allies right now. This is a terrible deal. If it it's a really deal. However, we do not have the leverage right now for a better deal. What we need to do is every single other thing. We can to turn up the heat on the Iranian to increase the pressure on them. That means increase the pressure in sea that means increase the pressure just in general, with their overseas military adventurism, there was a piecemeal times. That's the one thing that made me think this We feel a little bit better about pulling out of the deal and it's a peace which said,

actually the Iranian were expecting an economic bonanza from the deal they did. Some benefit from it, certainly particularly because of french investment and and much else, but they didn't get all of the benefits they had expected, because the? U S still has a pretty tight sanctions regime on IRAN and now gosh now. The iranian regime might find itself in crisis, and I thought to myself: wait: wait a second Zack Julia, pretty good reason for it, but still, I think the idea of moving. systematically and carefully don't pull out of the deal just yet. He's the temperature to the point where there are the ones who come begging, they're, the ones hey you guys are well. She nobody'll you guys, you're, not the third us you're, making it more expensive for us to pursue the kind of imperialist policies were pursued the region that would have made more sense, but that's just not trump style, to gonna get the sequence right in that way. So I guess I'm not prized, but I am disappointed will further the peace you mentioned. I think, if you have a real basic testing, are the Iranians happier today,

than they were the day before. When we're still on the deal and clearly the answer: is there not happier? I mean this has to have them extremely worried. at the very least that can be back sort of Kim Jong own kind of place. We're trumps can be threatening. I'm on Twitter every day, other day coming up nicknames for the mullahs, and I think the chemist in and partly conclude, conclude- that's not a very comfortable place for anyone to be and had saint Michael, but I do think military intervention is more plausible in IRAN that it wasn't in North Korea, where he could only really come come up with catastrophic thick scenarios, they make a catastrophe for many military intervention, but it is so What easier and it's it's you know, it's not impossible Imagine if they're already they're getting in serve a low level shooting war with Israel already they could s escalate into something that that else hitting hitting there their site get Charlie in on this truly one thing that you ve been emphasising is a point that Michael aid, which is that its who had been here?

to pull out of this. If the Obama team had actually been interested and following the time on, and constitutional procedure. For. A treaty which is what this effect, which, with the in reality- is which is going and getting sent a confirmation right, richer bomber declined to do be circumvented the american constitutional order. He did so deliberately and this has caused a problem in the arguments at the time- was it's not a treaty? If I say it's, not a treaty which has not really how the system works, but, of course the upshot of that is, it is not a treaty, and ass a result. It never got the sort of broad based acceptance within Congress and in the country. The treaties, by definition, must have whether other countries sore it s being built on sand. I don't know, but they should have

But it's gone not because I was particularly can sit on the maritime diagnostic. I've always been agnostic and I hated the way it was sold. I hated it that was this argument at the time that if you are against it, you were there for and favor of invading a wrong which wasn't true, and there was also these undercurrent. I think in some of the debates over the air wrong deal with people would say: will you must want it wrong together clear weapon, but I think that I think there was a strain within within progressive thought that actually would rather IRAN get a nuclear weapon than America have to take any military action. It was also dishonesty solved by people like Ben Road to who admitted to boasted about it, but I have never been a staunch critic of the deal. I have been a staunch critic of how it was done.

and I think it's it's preposterous to say. Well, no one will ever trust us again that the way you build trust in the international community is to agree to treaties, and we didn't. I mean this was a jerry rigged process from the beginning and if, if Donald Trump is somehow to be held responsible for the mistakes that his predecessor may it, I think I think we would

being a bad place constitutionally. Yes, he took a unilateral action here, but the reason he was able to tell you not bilateral action. Was it the Senate wasn't involved in the first place and are one of the arguments I've seen as web trumps? Also, a unilateral US trumps made the same mistake. Abominate trump did this without Congress, but only because Obama did it without Congress. In the first place I mean if, if President's can't undo the, I would say, dubiously constitutional, unilateral actions of their predecessors if they have to go through more hoops than did the people who circumvented the press in the first place, they were in a very difficult spot. Ass regards the power of the Senate. So, as a matter of political hygiene, I am pleased about as a matter of foreign policy. I am agnostic, Michael Click, that I just wanted to put a question to the table before you go out, which is what people think of kind of there? the action, the last minute attempts to save the

by John carry by Boris job. A new kind of took my position. He we came over and went on Fox and friends because he couldn't get a meeting with Trump and kind of said. We should how to strengthen the inspections regimes etc. This kind of the new world we live in, where you know they're there The normal rules and protocols. Now that Donald Trump is calling the shots on foreign policy, that people can running around in scampering in odd ways, I felt like this was totally not I'll just say I think it's a serious problem and that's exactly why I thought the pulling up precipitously was a mistake. We may not like the fact that we have we more leverage when we coordinate. our NATO allies. But the fact of the matter is that we do and if they feel so they have to scramble and use these back channels and go on fox and friends to try to make their case. I dont think that it's a good sign is just another function that the John Kerry Initiative here that they think trump such threats,

And violates so many norms in so many ways they they'll violated every single norm, tell me, there's no way carry would have done this. You know if, if job Bush was were present We still don't thank legs, then exit question. on this one Michael go to you first in medium term. After this decision by the Trump mistress apply the IRAN deal, IRAN will forswear its weapons programme for ever a new somewhat improve deal jumpstart its pursuit of nuclear weapon, not above None of the above, more likely escalation with Israel directly Ryan. You need me to repeat them. Yes I would ask where nuclear weapons forever cut a new, somewhat improved deal jumpstart. their programme, none above well, I would love to see us cut a new and improved deal. However, I think that only happens if Iraq is stronger. If

the Assad regime faces a kind of sustained challenge, etc, etc. You have to challenge them all on all fronts before that can happen. Charlie, can you repeat them for me is, forswear nukes, forever cut a new somewhat prevail, jumpstart pursued its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, not above, I think they are trying to get a nude. Do I don't know what form it will take? A probably won't take this sort of ballistic process with a big signing ceremony and a lot of fanfare, but I think behind the scenes they will try and out of these sanctions yeah. So for the record, I think it was right decision for trumped pull out. I think, will end up with a shout shadow jousting for some period time. Usually when the? U S demonstrates strength, the the Iranians duck and cover a little bit and try to figure out how much they can push it. EC sprinting towards anew.

Their weapon would push the Europeans into our arms and we would have a really good chance of reinstating aid. Very serious. sanctions regime, sir. I I choose none of the above for that time. Being so Let me before we move on to our next topic. Tell you more about our sponsor texture. Are you paying attention not just to this podcast, but everything if you're like me when you're, not listening, podcast, you're reading about the latest ideas and issues in your favorite magazines and you, all. The magazines that matter with texture texture is the app that offers over. two hundred top magazines, all in one place with texture. You get complete issues, and back issues for titles like time in the new new Yorker. All in one, you want something lighter. You have people cause

Oh and entertainment, weekly texture delivers the best of both worlds, with newsworthy stories and relaxing entertainment, anytime anywhere make things are where you find quality journalism, beautiful photos in depth, interviews and perspectives that show you all sides of the story dive deep into the Do you care about today with texture texture, is usually nine- ninety nine a month but they're giving listeners of free trial to start your seventy free trial got a texture, dot com, slash editors, go to texture, dot com, slash editors start. Reading the latest issues of your favorite magazines today, again texture dot com, slash

there's aright Charlie, so we ve had scandal news this past week of had really Giuliani doing his media tour and we ve had the revelation the last eighteen hours or so that the Shell company that Michael Cohen, set up to pay off stormy Daniels, receive put four point. Four a million dollars in payments from their various interests, presumably interested in. influencing the trump administration, through Michael Cohen, not knowing that Michael Cohen, had zero influence with the Trump administration where you see the story got where the whole thing is extreme, I sold it all the way down to the new involvement of Rudy Giuliani, who in some ways seems to be that, because he doesn't have anything else to do you want to do engineer. I returned to the spotlight In some ways, I I just don't care

about this stuff and is not cause- I don't think it's important is because in our having covered from so exhaust later in the primaries. We know this is who he is. I wouldn't be surprised if these stories Went on and on whose entire presidency- and they might eventually bring him down and when he is a man, Sir himself with people who may have question about ethics themselves, but also obliged to be fiercely loyal to Donald Trump. The combination of those two things leads to some pretty extraordinary outcomes. Michael current seems to be one of those people. He doesn't especially know what he's dead, he doesn't come from this world has not to say politicians are corrupt, very often, but he comes from a world in which this sort of behind there is more normal real estate. I

think that Giuliani is going to be a great help here for two reasons. Firstly, because the president can't keep his own story straight, he does. seem to really know what angle he's taking and that sets him apart from Bill Clinton. The second reason is that This is not really much to say, probably, except that Trump did it Michael Cohen did it and that there is life funds all over the place and the Trump has this guy. Who is his fixer and when that is the case. I don't know how you posted to get around it. This is who was elected president. So I, I'm I'm not I'm not indifferent towards the thing it's awful, but this Is this girl, let alone it? Let me

someone who cares about the story, even less than you do ass, I just don't think I've struck by, is I'm not sure as president ever had a more sordid associate then Michael com. Maybe some people who are involved in the Brigade Break in around Nixon or whose that Nixon fundraiser BB. What was arouse, oh yeah, but otherwise I mean just usually presidents- are have nothing to do with it, this kind of character yeah. That sounds right to criticise what I better call saw strike out that. Well, I guess what I find interesting is this idea of corporations eighteen tee Of course you have this. Russian oligarchy was involved as well, but just the thinking,

Why not for our purposes it a trivial sum of money to give fino half a million dollars couple million dollars here and there to this guy? Who is the purse an attorney of this guy who may or may not become president and that the truth is that my senses that this kind of aid you know that this kind of arrangement is pretty pervasive. This is not something entirely new. There are some people who are a little bit shrewder they launder it through more. So gated organizations that are able to tell us more plausible story about what it is there doing, this was up regularly naked his ball of influence peddling. It seems I'm not sure that Michael Cohen was in a position to provide a real, array of consulting service, his fur. You know these these various companies, but I wonder I mean if, in a rich you been around the political world for a long time. Is it your sense that this is pretty common? that certainly my sense that this stuff happens in various guises, I'm not in a kind of

this shabbily. But that is not new or unique. Yeah I mean just what makes it remarkable is how crude and shabby it is an is because in part, because these guys are amateurs- Michael comes a complete amateur, so it does even know how to, if you wanted to how to honour the various niceties in this this kind of business. So this is just a way that a Trump has made the swamp. Even swamp bureaucracies made it back, and people like Quarry Lewandowski and at the extreme margins, Michael Cohen, who are just pair it is of the worst kind of political fixtures, but it will Michael, you note, Michael COM, We can have a lot of contempt for him, but the guy did get rich. You know not by the most upright means, but you re that near time story over the weekend and we know by

by just share dollar standards is a successful businessmen by buying taxi medallion. What listen in a way this is like, when I was reading these stories, I was like what water finds away like if your grave, your draining the swamp, the water oh somewhere, I mean, in its almost literally the k sprayed with eighteen tee, for example, Anti engages two of the most. You know professional, like lobbying, for in Washington DC. Normally, my Brown and unlike Egon Gump, you know, whatever Strauss drove her baby No, I'm all these up. You know old, like older, establish names in in D C, happens is trumpets, elected and the people at these, Arms are saying right. I got nothing, I'm not! I don't know anyone here. I dont know what to do here and eat

and he has a meeting. No major merger issues coming up before them, so throw tuna Grand Michael Cone just for it for information right, that's what they say. I mean what did what he tells me trivial. Further permits tribute for their purposes, but what it's interesting. Is it tells me that, in a way like it's this want exists not just because of corrupt politicians, but because of the strong. Sure of the government and the way the government's regulatory decisions affect companies right, This money is, is gone come sloshing a Deasey one way or the other and it's either gonna be at like Egon Gump or it's gonna, be a guys, like Michael Cohen, amid the You know. The only way to get rid of the swamp would be to return. I too, like a pre Roosevelt in

three deal. I live american government now, just smoking cigarettes and listening to you talk, but I must see you can almost seed like this is this. Is the LEO, Michael Cone is like the earlier version of it can go. personally, I got there would have been shady lawyers going around you see in the forties and fifty's making deals, passing information, two important clients it is like, if, like the Corleone family, it Michael Corleone, comes in and professionalized as the operation. So truly what you make the argument there ve been a couple columns written about this last couple days, one at Fox by Matt. You glacis, when by our friends, crash. Our arguing, Stormy Daniels, is really hurting the Democrats because distracting from issues that cut against Republicans in one notable thing a couple months, is at trumps. Approval rating has been trending upwards, as the story has gotten more

tension, obviously other things going on: North Korea, Trade war, with the talk of a trade war with China but it certainly doesn't seem to be hurting him. I think I'm an example of that. Not not that I approve of Donald Trump, but I also don't especially care about this. Story purely because I already know that this is who Donald Trump is, and I just assume that it's true, I never thought he had a reputation as a truth, teller, and I think a lot of people feel like that. So yes, I think there is a lot to be said, that argument and I think in general this is a mistake. Democrats are making their looking for a silver bullet to get rid of trump. They don't think the election was legitimate, they ve convinced himself, but it wasn't and they have come up with all sorts of bizarre excuses and one of which is Russia, the main one, and that bleeds into Facebook

social media, another just looking for something that will get rid of him and they think Stormy Daniels might, but I think most people don't cash again, maybe they should, but I'm not convinced they do. That said, I do think that when parties lose power and swept out, it is generally because there is a broad conception that they are corrupt. It's one thing on top of another: if you look at the Republican Congress being kicked out in two thousand and six, it wasn't just one thing and it was a whole bunch of things, including and was in Congress and the danger for Trump is that although people know who he is here every day,

more and more and more comes out about his sexual life is arrogance. His lying is shady financial dealings and so forth, and eventually people who are open to supporting him just so you know I just had enough of this in our politics. I don't want to hear about it anymore and the only way to achieve that is to kick him or his party out, but at the moment it does seem ass if to use the phrase they were using pulling. This is baked in. There probably is no silver bullet for the Democrats and there they were just do a lot better. In my view, to attack is policies so double barreled exit question, beginning with you right hand, Salaam Michael COM it will bring down. The Trump presents a yes or no, no choice Michael Kono bring down the trunk presidency. Yes, now Michael know, the answer is no.

Second, the barrel of a double barrel. Second, question to you: Right had Salaam: Rudy Giuliani will still be on the Trump legal team at the end of summer, yes or no, no Charlie because it's embarrassing trump and this one thing trump accountable. We might get total unanimity here might all men. He asked is no wow that ever happened before I've. Just no point three that you have just witnessed editors, podcast history, so right hand. You follow near politics, I do right, or more in the rest of us. So what did you make? The spectacular blob of Iraq's nitrogen gosh? It was a tremendous reporting from Ronan Pharaoh and Jane Mare. They can get pulsars two years running now.

I think you see, is on an richly deserved. I mean there's also this dynamic, a fact which is that he has now established. That is fearless that he is willing to go after Lily anyone, and that means that people who otherwise would be reluctant to come forward will go to him. So there is this in a kind of increasing returns dynamic, but you know he deserves. The accolades and to the substance of the story. Schneider man is a very important figure in New York to those of you who heard from other parts of the country? It must be said I mean he his office is- is kind of like this kind of Elliot Ness operation. I mean he's attracted a lot of very bright, ambitious left liberals his operation? He has really excellent political stinks for understanding how the kind of New York Progressive Look.

all intelligentsia in the media is going to respond to this or that story he is very tactically effective. He has made many enemies to be sure, but he is generally gotten the better of them and it turns out that he is in his personal life. Just a powerfully loathsome dangerous threatening person. The behaviour described that article is just just truly repellent an ugly. I dont honestly think but this has in a really obvious partisan political implications, this is someone who you know me there's something about people who are these really effective politicians there, often of a monstrous and third specks of their lives. But beyond that, I am not sure that there is that much of a of a partisan politics, take away from this, but you know stop. Thank goodness those women who had,

victimized by Schneider men were willing to forward and help put a stop to it. So surely it is it an instance, maybe not the biggest and most important one, but an instance of of tramping fortunate enemies Cushion Ireland had made a big deal of being a at the top of the ramparts legal resistance is enough, fortunately lucky with his enemies and his rivals within his own party the fold, revealed have a glass jar in this case and is it a lot because chum tweeted about Schneider men and two thousand.

tea in and said you wave you'll see how about this. Guy is worse than Elliot Spitzer. What did he knows he just being Trump who knows, but in this case parliament does seem to be something of a monster. I don't think there's a part as an element of this to their about people in both parties. There about people in both movements? I do think that there are an awful lot of people who are so loud about a particular topic and their hiding something with that and that this is not the first time that a really work, progressive it goes on and on and on and on about women's rights and women's liberation turns out to be part of the problem, What in unfairness, by the same token, very pious, social conservatives who claim to it

the traditional values, your turn out, our laughter's neighbourly lives less common now, because social changes has altered the consequences, but there were people in aid. The nineties, who never stopped going on about homosexuality, and a lot of them turned out to be gay, and I do think this is an interesting phenomenon, but but note this, this is it. This is a case where you have a guy who is it, is a bit of a monster. I think it is worth pointing out that I mean the problem. Here was the lack of consent. It seems that and then one of the stories that he seems to have been protected. I don't know it doesn't say who did this, but one of the women went to a friends This is what the skies like. This is what he stirring, and they said what is too important to the Democratic Party that that's the problem here. It's not the he's. It he's a widow.

So Michael, what's your view on whether and if we just took bull randomly from any walk of life, you'd end up with an Elliot's bitter and an erection lighterman, you know it any any batch in any fashion, or is there something about New York politics of flippin pit? from the assembly on up it is disgusting, everything from Shelly solvers, dirty dealings, Cuomo, Emmy Patterson. Before him. Sir Wiener, I mean it's just I give up on New York Politics I do wonder how I do wonder if there was a whisper network about Schneider men because it means its way heard how brain Coppermine show on Showtime billions has features this New York age, character, who is sexual deviant in private and ate a moral crisis, arrogance. Greed in in public

but you know so I do wonder how much of this is out there. I give amazing kudos to Ronan Pharaoh. I mean this. The sky It is now a monster reporter and just like again, to the countrymen. It's amazing. This was a four hour window from this. The story going live on, Yorker DOT, com to the resignation. It's just its. shocking, and am I No it's it's it's. It is good moral hygiene for the country. I think one thing we should say we should say meet the meat movement is not going too far right that this is a malefactor, it should have been brought down and he's down now It's good, so I like this is this is turning into into something pretty righteous, rather than fizzling out with you. No kind of garbage accusations So jolly execution to you rate the blow that Eric Snyder mince disgrace represents two

distance zero, not even a wound. Five, it definitely hurts. I think it's about it too. he's been very involved in some of these novel legal theories. He's been willing to push the envelope there and perhaps is Sesar will be as well, but he seemed especially good at it Michael certified. I think it's more like a four because Sherman had real power in a district that you know, could potentially Trump in some way, whereas a lot of the other resistance people. Just people tweeting uselessly ran certified I think it's a zero, because his successor will absolutely be someone who will redouble on this commitment. It is something that makes democratic coffers bulge, with cash

small dollar donors love Russia. They love everything that smacks of resistance, and I think that his next his successor will be someone who will actually not be a major creep and also- sure sure that they sure, but I am pretty sure about that- and I told you that what I am at the end of the year Show replay prediction honestly, like certainly creep attitude on this scale, but also beyond that everyone, new to coordinate immediately. No one expressed a dissenting voice. This is one thing that social media does social media drives preference suffocation Everyone knows immediately what they're supposed to think they look too. the high status high prestige, people believe in a lotta cases, that's a really bad thing. In some cases that actually gets people too, not just gotta fight. You no have on honour.

Contrary and were doubt, that's gonna ultimately be counterproductive. So if you're talking about coordinating a movement in this sense, like look guys get right on this immediately, get right on it fast. So that's a tendency that I think is normally really toxic and bad, but in this case from you certainly from a political perspective. Also, I guess from a moral perspective that that's a good things: I think that that immediate reaction, the fact that you didn't have that many people who immediately shouted down say oh gosh gee, I mean only- did- was choked these women Marino Good obligatory these too good for the resistance. You didn't hear a lot of them, so I was gonna. Do are right hand, ask a point. One answer to this question, but Charlie and Michael talk me up to one, but basically, on the same grounds, Ryan it that you set out Think whoever it is in this position will also be highly aggressive, highly motivated against tromp so and in that sense, is not a big below, let's

hit on one last thing: I just do it exit question style could are running out of time at field freed, elaborate a lot. more than the usual in the light of last nice primary result. Michael Brennan Authority. Ask you percentage odds, are publicans pick up seats in the Senate the fall, zero forget about it, it's gonna be Mitch Mcconnell minority later one, percent with so many red stay Democrats up this year. It's an inevitability, I think, with, I think, we're like it. Ninety percent. I actually think the Senate ground is just so favourable for Republicans amiss in this election and wow. I think there are some more you're vulnerabilities in the democratic side, trumps privilege, is going up, he's cute, his promises on basically nothing except Obama, care and infrastructure weak Republicans. Old and gain in the Senate ran zero percent. So

I actually believe I would framed this a little bit differently. I believe that last night improves republican chances, so you're gonna with that as the baseline, he indicated that it was good news over offer. Republicans the overall numbers I mean, I mean Democrats, some pretty good candidates to I'll, say I think set, so you are giving the percentage chance at their can increase, and I'd say I mean, did twenty percent that they increases total, but I think that you know before last night I mean have you had a different outcome? I did go to lower than that I'll so say that I think that some of these candidates seem like indication of where the Republican Party is going in a potentially positive and constructive direction. I think that might Brown is more blue collar populist candidate, he's running in a way that really fits his state. Jim gymnasia someone, I've had my quarrels with, but it's interesting. If you look at how we talk

that immigration. I think that is different. More defensible gravity is a shrewder position than many republicans have had in the past. I think that there were promising signs coming out of the primary from last night and that region. That kind of greater apple Archer you no kind of rust belts are. Japan is a region that is incredibly critical to republican fortunes, so get Talented candidates out of that region is really really important. Tribes, chances are Republicans pick up in the Senate. Zero, not gonna happen. A hundred inevitable link is about six sees a seventy percent. I dont know what things are gonna look like by November, but I think there is a good chance. The map is favourable and they don't seem to be picking at least not yet that taught eggins or the Roy Maws or thank goodness there, the dawn Blankenship Samina whether that was the result. Last night of dark trumps intervention

our in West Virginia Virginia to what we're not gonna, lose his seat or better. We're not gonna, be embarrassed by this guy. I don't know, but they haven't done too badly, thus far at nominating candidates, the maps favourable to them. I think it's likely, I believe, a bit of a sceptic that Blankenship was ever surging. Certainly, people are acting like IE, the surging and there's reports of internal poles, but I checked in this race in ten days ago in areas like Egypt. Gonna finish. Third, and here we are, you know after a lot of drama finished. Third, soon as a media creation? Basically, maybe maybe I can't be sure, but maybe it was- and as I was happy, the outcome because he and our endorse candidate Patrick Mercy, one very solid conservative nose to the grindstone really hard worker is not condemn, Baroness Ashton, as it had a prick, a chance of being mansion. I'd, say on the sector.

Should I really just I don't know, I'm still uncertain what the ultimate environment is gonna be out of a total of fifty fifty cop out, but I'm not gonna quite do they include forty percent chance of Republicans picking up seeds and is not convinced that these vulnerable in incumbents it's hard to beat comments. It really is an inner Clare, Mc Caskey, L, a maybe the topics, this too vulnerable Democrats, but in a she's, she's, fairly sure, truces survive. Before, of course, I mean Republicans blue himself upon a launch pad the prior time, but it is on this. Not I'm not weigh up at at ninety percent away. Michaels tat some other items before we go Michael, you have been watching karate kid revive on. You do yeah, so you tube now produces original programming like Netflix, and

there's a new series, COBRA Kai, which picks up on the protagonists. play my Ralph macho and his nemesis in the first film is kind of blonde hair Lee years later, and what years later is the the rich blonde hair Bali from Encina is now down? luck in difficulty and Ralph MACHO is like auto king of the valley, Basically, what is so great about this revival? One is very funny. It's very like fun and light tv for once, but it actually picks up on something dreary deepen the culture, which is that the when the old nemesis. Johnny Lawrence revives the cobra kai, martial arts studio, the he revived, The old slogan, which is to strike first strike hard, no mercy and again the show

gets that in twenty eighteen. That is not. Scary, to totalitarian message. It empowering thrilling transgression had not done enough a soft culture and its just. It is just a funny show I love it emerging for Coburg. I bet that reading the book radical markets- yes Glenn while and Eric Posner have co authored. This very zany very thought provoking book which is kind of this. Tsar fusion of idea, drawn from the classical liberal tradition from the socialists, tradition and its is saying: hey look, You know. The defenders of the liberal order, the defenders of capitalism, we we are not sufficiently creative. We are not dealing with a populous challenge in the right way. What we need to do is completely reinvent our society, these and in it

look that contains a lot of ideas from which I instinctively recoil, and I think that the book has met with a law already has met with a lot of ferocious in its criticism, Matt Klein, formerly the financial times now, barons kind of has more than one occasion ridiculed some of the ideas, including one idea for essentially abolishing all private property, but I promise you, for I imagine our listeners myself included, will resist will oppose many. These ideas they really do make. You think this is really really fun book to read. if you're someone who actually likes having your kind of suppositions, your beliefs challenged, take a look at it too you ve been following the extraordinary surge of a certain team in the east. I have I have and will be tv through my apple tv down here in Florida and his great, because, obviously not being a new Yorkers

very few blackout somehow Milby manages to put me in Atlanta Miami and temper. At the same time, there is a mine that's better than my blackout cities, but other than that. I've watched pretty much every single game the season and it's just something. This team. I don't just mean that the results the street thereon- I don't just mean how much talent there is that there's something about it, team. That is ineffable, and I know I know sports analyse hate it when people talk like this, but but he who watched the Great Manchester United teams of the of the nineteen nineties, an addendum to thousands you, you believe now when watching them, that the team is going to come back and win, and they believe it too that they ve got into this this confidence. That is hard to develop an

to shake once it has been developed. I am especially pleased not discuss Michael's emits fan, of course, but I especially pleased is about two weeks ago. I have a friend on here is a Mets Vernon when he said to me don't pretty. While you guys are a five hundred team. I said I didn't I it's all about to turn around, and I wasn't question how much I meant it. I was just such a saving face and that today, after the six, ordinary run started, but now I think this could go all the way and again not just because it has the talent and its ranks, but that that there is something magical about this group So I have a couple things I first of all want to mention the extraordinary success of general Brooks. Suicide of the west. This was error here. on marketable book in in one sense by By that I mean nodded, Jonah can market anything, but just that this was a big book, literally its long, its ambition

just takes on big ideas, its tilting against He tied the moment. Rather than going with it, it's not a partisan book and he's gone out there and its number four on the combined near times, bus or less number, five on the print list. So Joe has to be incredibly pleased and proud. And we urge all of you who have not yet picked up Jonas Book Suicide, otherwise to do so and offer Jonah are heartiest congratulations that I also want to go back and update everyone. I made some defeat. Sounds about the washing capitals and their play off seriously gets Pittsburgh. Penguins will this week they Capel's actually won the serious and game six and over time goes by I could not solve a five or against Matt Marie sprung on a break away by out, Alex that again, and we have just had such horrible luck against the pits worth paying. When's with one just. Why

play off series out of ten with them lose, as I mentioned last week and crushing fashion. So this was a nice can round serious, but just felt so big for every washing capitals fan out dancing a jig in apartment. They immediately cut away eggs. They had to go to the winner, Peg Nashville, games, I couldn't savour properly so got on a tune in and listen to the radio broadcasts in their replaying, the the right, call the goal which is appropriately bonkers. I danced round again, and how are you learned our lesson about death? I am a light of sporting events. Iran has referred to you when I did. I didn't do it Jake. I did a very small jump up when the egg be the Indians and play off last year and badly tore a calf mazzolata like a classic all guy in. But anyway my wife conscious, tolerates my hockey phantoms. Like oh, you know, congratulations, they won the Stanley CUP of like now. That's can be too.

Two more serious anyway. Let's, let's move onto our editors, picks Michael. What's your pic fee website. We have a column method, continuity, that's under the title, Donald Trump Trump the more Obama Mirage- and out the reindeer being expelled now and basically How Donald Trump, despite all, the protestations of his unfaithfulness to his promises. keeping major campaign promises the Paris accords. Going after Obama's amnesty going after the er Andy all, and it shows how much awaited a lot of Obama's achievements were totally illusory and easy to untie because they had no basis income, press and dumb

you know I just I just think reader- should take a look at this common ground. With your pick, my it is a J Nord lingers piece in the forthcoming issue of national review on the plight of the wiggers. It is moving peace, it is a dismaying peace as someone who isn't hardly an expert but has great admiration for we, your culture and the weaker people- and I urge you to read it Charlie, monsieur pic- I dont have just one point. I want to praise Michael Brendan Diocese Series of Book Review off the shelf, which he writes about once a week patiently more this assembly Michael said he wanted to do and

Joint Anna, and I think he does it superbly. As everyone knows, book reviews can take two forms. It can either be an actual review of the book or they can be a jumping off point an excuse to write about whatever you want to write about, and I think, Michael's or Reserve annex a combination of those two and nice addition to turn up my pig is Michael Linz Cover story and a new issue of, and are about, the new cold war Russia, and mostly China and Michael, urges us to take a step back and take a larger view of our relationship with China and the larger strategic competition with China, and not just focus on trade trade should be it a subset of this. This larger strategic question I found it brilliant. As Michael always is and also extremely clarifying, so

that's it for us. You been listening to a national review, podcast any re broadcast, transmission or account of this game right hand without he has a written permission of natural magazine is strictly prohibited. Thank you, my oh? Thank you right hand. Thank you Charlie thing. You two are sponsor texture and please check their special offer. That's texture, dot, com, editors for listener, so this podcast textured dot com. flash editors and, most importantly, thanks to all of you, for listening. We are editors and see you next time