In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses this morning's Senate hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi as well as Josh Hawley's comments on being tracked on his phone by the Justice Department. Mark is then joined by Jason Smith, Missouri's 8th District Congressman. He discusses the continuation of the government shutdown as well as the Ways and Means Committee pushing for tax revocation of several non profit organizations. He's later joined by Ilya Shapiro, a Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute. His new book is titled "Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites." He discusses several topics including the new Supreme Court being underway, the judicial intervention in President Trump sending federal troops to urban trouble spots, as well as the light sentence for suspect in the attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh.