Hey, everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change.

And this time, this time I mean it, because we have one of my favorite guests, Frank Four of the Atlantic Monthly, an author of a new very important book in my estimation, the last politician, a chronicle of the first two years

of the Biden presidency. Throughout the last politician, you get sort of a blow-by-blow picture

of how Biden approaches the office that he sought three times. And this is not the Sleepy Joe caricature that Fox News and the others try to

create. It's quite the opposite. This is a guy with strengths and weaknesses, but what emerges

in this book is a fully engaged president who brings it every day and with his understanding

and mastery of how the government

works and got so much done uh inheriting a uh government that had no plan no plan for getting

the covid vaccine into people's arms uh the biden team does that uh so that within six months, you can get the shot at your pharmacist.

That was a victory for technocracy, something that's a theme in the last politician, and

something that you certainly wouldn't associate with the Trump administration.

Remember that Trump, in his first two years had

the House and the Senate and couldn't get an infrastructure bill done. Every week was

infrastructure week. And it just never happened. Biden got the largest infrastructure package

through since Eisenhower built the interstate highway system.

Chips are huge investment in semiconductor manufacturing focused on our national security.

We're relying on China for our semiconductors and on manufacturing and working class and middle class jobs and investment

in science, and the Inflation Reduction Act, a nearly $400 billion investment in addressing

climate change, which is, you know, kind of important.

And I'm out here in Los Angeles right now.

I was out here for my granddaughter's seventh birthday.

And I don't know what we're leaving.

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