Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, September 13th, 2023.

I'm John Poghortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me is always executive editor

A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Christine Rosen is out today, but here today again is our

own Washington commentary columnist, Matthew Cottonetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. Matt Abe, Christine

and I for the first time, I think at a very long time, all have pieces in the upcoming

October issue of commentary, which will be out today on our website at commentary dot org.

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for some crackling dialogue on the October issue of commentary. Matt, Kevin McCarthy,

speaker of the house yesterday announced that he is asking the house to open an impeachment

inquiry into Joe Biden. Let us now, let us now make it clear that this is not the impeachment

of Joe Biden or a trial of Joe Biden or a vote to impeach Joe Biden. This is some kind of weird

way station where he is authorizing the house to do what it is doing already as far as I can tell,

which is investigating Joe Biden and seeing whether or not untoward behavior toward with his son

and his son's businesses rise the level of an actual impeachment. And yet, of course,

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