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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential

election year. And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we

want to and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life. I'm delighted to be

joined today by one of the American, in fact, Americano in your life. I'm delighted to be joined today by one of

American, in fact, Americano's most frequent guest, Jacob Harbrun, the editor of the national

interest, and a brilliant columnist for the spectator. And we're going to be asking whether Joe

Biden can go on following, of course, last week's debate shambles and lots of whispers

over the weekend about democratic authority figures maneuvering to oust him before or perhaps

at the Democrats' party convention in August. But Jacob, we should probably start with some breaking news, shouldn't we?

Which is that Donald Trump has had more good news from the Supreme Court.

The good news keeps rolling in for Trump, which is that the Supreme Court has found that he is

shielded from prosecution, which is to say he has immunity for certain official acts that he took in the

White House, which will greatly complicate the January 6th case against him and almost assuredly

delay it past the election. But Trump's good luck might be about to end Jacob, or we'll see on July the 11th,

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