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Morning, Lori, America, evening, Grace, America.

I'm Hugh Hewitt in Studio West.

That music means the Hillvale Dialogue, as promised yesterday in a preview,

is on with Dr. Larry Arn this week talking about Donald Trump and domestic policy next week,

national security, as we mentioned yesterday. Dr. Arn, good afternoon to you. How are you?

I'm good. How are you? I am great. Now, as we talked about yesterday,

we want to kind of do domestic policy today and national security policy next week.

But I want to make sure in case people didn't hear you open the show yesterday and preview this.

Give us your general reaction to the first roughly month of Donald Trump back in the Oval Office.

Wow.

He's breaking the China.

I thought it was going to be fast.

It's faster than that.

I thought it was going to be very purposeful.

It's more so.

And he has launched a thoroughgoing attack on the nature and being of the

administrative state. And it's a theme and it's being carried out everywhere. Now, I wrote a column for

Fox News yesterday that I thought Trump derangement syndrome had been sworn off by many journalists,

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