Biden's Troubles and Iran's Provocations

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On today’s podcast—with Christine in studio!—we take up the question of Joe Biden’s odd remarks about segregationist senators and whether the Democratic party is more his or more Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s. Plus: We’re not going to do anything about Iran, are we? Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:27.0	Today is Thursday June 20th 2019. I am John Pothor. It's the editor of Commentary
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1:00.2	now in their beautiful mailboxes featuring a lead article from I'm thrilled to
1:06.8	announce first time in studio as a commentary staffer senior writer Christine
1:14.4	Rosen, high Christine. Also of course a Greenwald senior editor, high Abe, high
1:19.6	John, and no Rossignan associate or Hinoa. Alright so Joe Biden is here's the
1:29.4	thing Joe Biden is either in trouble or he's not in trouble. He's either he's
1:34.1	he's in trouble because he's saying things that are getting are making other
1:39.2	them giving other Democrats a lane in which to attack him he's not in trouble
1:43.7	because once again two polls came out yesterday showing him doubling the
1:49.0	support of everybody else in the field and beating Trump and Florida by nine and
1:53.6	various other things so on paper he's as strong as he has been period and the
2:00.3	big fight in the ranking seems to be between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie
2:05.3	Sanders with Warren supposedly rising and Sanders supposedly falling. However the
2:10.7	question is Biden coming out and being having to confront having said things
2:18.1	about segregationist senators whom he was obliged to work with in the 1970s and
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