Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, the Bulwerks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and Policy Editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

and the Wall Street Journal, Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center and Damon

Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter, Eyes on the Right.

Our special guest this week is Nicholas Grossman,

Political Science Professor, University of Illinois,

and a senior editor at Arc Digital.

Welcome, one and all. Well, it was really looking like things were going

well for President Biden. His approval rating was ticking up, inflation was ticking down, Japan and the US are strengthening

cooperation on defense matters and Biden is getting serious about dealing with the

border or at least making noises along those lines and then,

wow, this week, the news that the President has himself mishandled classified information.

Nick, I'm going to start with you because this story has had a funny sort of rollout because

because we heard on Monday night that the president had inadvertently

discovered some classified documents at his center at the University of Pennsylvania

that he entered after his Vice Presidency.

When they discovered them, his lawyers

alerted the archives, turned them over right away,

et cetera. And so days go by. turned them over right away, etc.

And so days go by, and then what do we find?

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