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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Biden Withholds

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The news that the Biden administration has deliberately chosen to withhold certain armaments from Israel despite the passage of the aid bill last month is a landmark moment not only in the peculiar behavior of the White House toward the Jewish state since October 7 but also in the annals of American warfare. We don't try to win wars any longer; are we now committed to ensuring that other nations can't win wars either? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:07.0

the worst.

0:09.0

Expect the worst.

0:11.0

Some drink champagne, some die of furs.

0:14.0

No way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best expect the worst.

0:22.0

Welcome. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

0:27.0

Today is Wednesday, May 8, 2024.

0:30.0

I'm John Podhorts, the editor of Commentary with me as always executive editor a

0:35.3

Greenwald I Abe

0:36.6

Hi John senior editor Seth Mandel hi Seth

0:39.7

Hi Seth and Washington commentary columnist and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise

0:46.0

Institute Matthew Conneti.

0:48.0

Hi Matt.

0:49.0

Hi, John.

0:50.0

Two faces of Joe Biden yesterday.

0:53.0

So we're going to start first with Joe Biden's

0:56.0

noon time speech commemorating Yom Chasawa,

1:02.0

a Holocaust Remembrance Day.

1:04.3

Seth, you watched the speech, what was your take on it?

1:09.8

It was nothing really wrong with the speech except for what was missing.

1:14.2

It was everything he said was basically right.

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