Music

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Wednesday, January 19, 2021. I am John Popport. It's the editor of

Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor, a Greenwald

Hi Abe. John, senior writer Christine Rose and

Hi Christine. Hi John. And associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi John. This afternoon we are taking this Wednesday morning,

Wednesday afternoon. Joe Biden will give a press conference,

commemorating I guess the 99th and a half day of his, the 360

fourth and a half day of his presidency because of course tomorrow is the 20th

January, which will make it a year. Maybe they consulted with an

astrologer and decided that doing it on the 20th would be,

it would not be propitious since other doing it on the 19th, who knows.

And maybe you don't have to feel sorry for the guy that he has to stand up in front of the,

you know, the reporters and the nation to defend what is maybe the worst

first term record of our lifetimes. First year of the first term of our lifetimes

little hard to Bill Clinton had a pretty bad first year. This is way worse though

because actually we were coming out of a recession in 93 when Clinton was,

when Clinton had to, you know, he made a lot of blunders but

and he was heading for a huge embarrassment at the polls in November of 94 but

I don't know. I mean, it's just not like this. I mean, you don't have like everything

happening at once. Inflation Afghanistan. I mean, not that Afghanistan hadn't

...