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to walk us through the China angle to all of this and give us an assessment of what is going on in the ground over there.
But, you know, we are America first here in the war room.
So we will start with what is going on here in the United States.
Obviously, a shakeup over at the DOJ.
So we thought best to bring on the one and only Julie Kelly, who has been writing wonderfully about everything that's gone down with Bondi, the weird never Trump crowd.
They're like zombies or Medusa or whatever the Greek...
The thing is where you cut the head off and they come back with more of a vengeance.
I thought Ron DeSantis, we agreed that wasn't going to happen, but now he's being floated for AG.
I've been enjoying your social media commentary on that.
But Julie, let's just take a step back and can you kind of give us your broader assessment of what we're seeing go down at DOJ, your assessment of Bondi's tenure and what you think the path forward looks like?
I'm curious, Julie, kind of taking a step back.
I agree.
I think the mishandling of the Epstein Files situation may go down truly as one of the worst political comms crises in modern, maybe all of American history from start to finish from, you know, Bindergate.
I think it persists to this day, but
Do you think that that is emblematic, maybe making it less of a one-off or an edge case, but of what really I think was the kind of final nail in the coffin for A.G.
Bondi, which was this idea that I think we've seen sort of permeate through a lot of corners of the Trump administration, if we're being honest, which is there's a lot of talk about
but there's not a lot of accountability.
There's some, but I don't think it's what exactly President Trump, who is of course in charge and has the right to hire and fire as he so pleases, ran on and I think once and frankly deserves.
Do you think it's fair to say that the broader department was sort of failing to meet that mark?
Or do you think that the Epstein situation was more of sort of just an aberration or an anomaly from an otherwise successful department, but he just couldn't get past that?