Welcome to this emergency edition of the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

We are recording this on Thursday night, August 29th,

though most of you will hear this on Friday the 30th.

We have just finished watching the 3 minute 22 second interview with Kamala Harris, Tim

Walls, and Dana Bash, in which we learned that she cooks bacon.

They like mac and cheese.

She likes more pepper on her mac and cheese and really enjoyed seeing herself in a photograph where her grand niece had pigtails and she

was up on the stage.

And that was about as substantive as she wanted to get. The question for my fellow panelists

is, did we find out things that we didn't know? Did she help herself? Did she hurt herself?

Do you want Mac and Cheese after listening to

Waltz and Kamala talking about Mac and Cheese? It's a little late for Mac and

Cheese, but nonetheless, panelists here include our executive editor, A Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

Hi, John. Media commentary columnist Christine, Christine, Christine,

you're muted.

Hi John.

And Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Cotton Eddie,

hi Matt.

Hi, John.

Okay, Lightning Round. Uh, lightning round.

On a scale of 1 to 10, one being the worst thing ever and 10 being she is elected unanimously as President of the United States.

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