Episode 632: Robert Hur Defends Himself

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Maddy, and Michael discuss Robert Hur’s testimony, Chuck Schumer’s anti-Netanyahu speech, and the NHS’s continued pull-back from puberty blockers.

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0:00.0	and Robert Hurry defends himself and Chuck Schumer wants a new Israeli government
0:20.4	will discuss all this and more on this edition of the
0:23.2	editors I'm rich Lowry and I'm joined as always by the right on the
0:24.9	Charles c. W. Cook Medal and Maddie Kearns and the notorious M. B. D.
0:29.8	Michael Brendan Doherty you are of course listening to a Nashview podcast or sponsors this episode our donors trust made in and mink service by the way you can find us everywhere from Spotify to iTunes if you like
0:43.4	what you hear here please consider giving us a glowing five-star review on iTunes if you
0:47.8	don't like what you hear here please forget I said anything So speaking of forgetting MBD, we had Robert Her up before a congressional committee
0:59.4	in the House discussing his report, where of course characterized Joe Biden as a
1:06.6	well-meaning elderly man with the memory issues also the Department
1:12.4	Justice released the transcript of hers two days of interviews with Joe Biden pretty much simultaneously with this testimony or right beforehand. I thought her was really an accomplished witness, very sure-footed, not a
1:27.9	mega extremist or anything extreme about him. Very professional and Democrats were at pains to try to
1:35.9	characterize his report as exonerating Joe Biden. There are two instances
1:40.4	where at least two instances where Democrats said this.
1:44.0	Representative Jay Paul was one of them and she in the course of a wind up,
1:48.4	I don't think it was a question, it was just a long comment.
1:51.6	She referred to the complete exoneration and then when she
1:55.1	paused he he popped in and said I just I just have one problem with with the word
2:00.0	you use there and she's like this is my time I didn't exonerate Joe
2:04.5	Biden you know I found this and stop interrupting me this is my time mr her but he
2:09.9	rejected the idea that he had exonerated Biden appropriately.
2:15.0	Yeah, this was actually a surprisingly entertaining bit of testimony and back and forth. Usually these are duds and this wasn't a
2:28.6	dud. I thought it was crazy though to see so many people in the print media suggest that hers
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