Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, March 26, 2021. I am John

Podhor. It's the editor of commentary. No, Rothman is out for the week, beginning today,

and then most of next week with me as always, executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi, John.

And in her first gig as the producer of the podcast, senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine.

Hi, John. If it's terrible, I apologize in advance, our listeners. No, it's very good at this.

Well, I hope you won't have to eat crow because I have to eat crow today. I did a whole

showy thing on the last podcast on Wednesday. We didn't do one yesterday about how the Biden

press conference was going to lead with guns, gun control, the two shootings in Boulder and Atlanta.

And I was wrong. And Abe Greenwald was correct that the press conference would begin with

talk of Republican obstruction. In fact, the first question said, Republicans are obstructing

all of these things. They're going to obstruct voting rights and this and that. The other thing,

what are you going to do about it, Mr. President? So Abe, Crow has been eaten. You are a

wiser man than I. Look, in fairness, that first question was like a kitchen sink question.

It was the guns might have been in there. I think he said guns. Yeah, they're right. But

they wound up with. So now that we've announced the three major five major issues facing

us, what are you going to do about these damn Republicans? Yeah, exactly. So I thought it

was a very interesting and telling press conference. I listened to it as I was driving from

New York to Chicago. And so it was that I was very focused on it. And otherwise, I would

just have had to focus on the trucks that I was passing on the left. So once again, I

am startled by the political skill that I think Biden has been displaying pretty much since

he started running for president in 2019 and that he displayed in the press conference.

I know that I'm not talking about the substance of what he is talking about. Most of which

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