Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday October 5th 2023.

I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen

Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute

are Washington commentary columnist Matthew Kahnetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. So Joe Biden

is having a busy week, even though all of the news seems to be focusing on Capitol Hill

and the chaos that is emanating from the House of Representatives story blazing across

the drug report that the wall, the fence, the border fence, the border wall is back in

action. Permits or rather anti permits, clearances to build, build stuff where it's being

built have been cleared so that obviously at some point in the next year, Biden can

claim that he is building the wall, the Trump stop building after 52 miles or wherever

was that Trump is doing. That's number one. Number two, big plan seemed to be a foot

for some kind of a presidential effort to lobby the country and Congress on aid for

Ukraine. And he's trying not to fall down. And he got, he removed commander from the

White House. Oh, and, and, and, of course, I'm praying, the lead story, John, 11, yes,

who've been 11 dogs, the White House staff living in terror for years. That reflects on

the dog owner, not on the dog. I just have to put that out there that reflects on the

dog's owners who are the president and first lady and not on the dogs. I want to provide

you with a insane baby boomer piece of pop culture trivia of a very, very, very low order

right now. I dream of Genie. Genie had a dog. The dog's name was Jinjin and Jinjin could

be and could get invisible because he was, of course, a genie dog. And he at the sultans

palace, he was beaten, Jinjin by a, somebody in a uniform. And so, Jinjin on, I dream,

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