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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year. And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one,

because we want to and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.

I am delighted to be joined today by Todd Bensman,

who is fellow at the Centre for Immigration Studies

and author of Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History.

Todd, we've had you on before, and I think you may have been at the border then. You're at the border still. You're in U.S. history. Todd, we've had you on before, and I think you may have been at the

border then. You're at the border still. You're in Texas. Yes, I'm in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Well, we'd like to talk to you about the crisis at the border, which I think the Biden

administration has now acknowledged is a crisis or accepted is a crisis.

But before we do that, I think given the week that Joe Biden has had,

I'd like to ask you just quickly, if you don't mind about how bad Joe Biden's sort of frailty,

physical and mental frailty, is getting in the mind of the American public. I mean,

this week we've had three quite major mistakes. He mistook Emmanuel Macron for Mitterrand from

Germany, he said. He mistook the Egyptian president Al-Sisi for said he was Mexico's president.

And he muddled up Angela Merkel and helmet Cole if I'm

remembering it's actually always easy when criticizing Biden's memory to get it wrong yourself but I

think I've got that right and another thing happened yesterday which is that the Department of

Justice produced this sort of odd report about Biden which was almost excusing him over his lack of

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