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The Editors

Episode 786: Crocodile Tears over ’Alligator Alcatraz’

The Editors

National Review

Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Will Mamdani succeed in seizing the means of production and our alligators?

0:21.5

An effective deterrent against illegal immigration.

0:23.9

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

0:27.0

I'm Dersh Larian.

0:27.5

I'm joined as always by the right Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the sage of authenticity woods.

0:34.7

Jim Garrity, you are, of course, listening to a National View podcast. Our sponsor

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this episode is The Future of Freedom Podcasts. More about that and due course. If for some

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reason you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way, you can find

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0:54.7

hear here, please forget. I said anything. So Jim Garrity, as we speak, the Senate is struggling to

1:03.1

pass Trump's one big, beautiful bill. Parliamentarian has rifled shots, some stuff out of here, been various compromises.

1:14.4

I think as we speak, they're really trying to work Lisa Murkowski and get her vote.

1:20.6

The Senate bill is better than the House bill on Medicaid and some other stuff.

1:26.2

It's also gotten worse in other respects what to make of it.

1:31.3

I was going to say our summer intern, John Puri, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly,

1:36.7

is written a good corner post.

1:38.8

This is a bonus editor's pick saying that looking over the changes over the last 10 days

1:42.7

and saying that the parliamentarian

1:44.5

picked it apart and pressures to various members of Republican conference, most notably the ones

1:50.2

you'd probably characterize as the squishes, have made leadership adopt further changes mostly

1:55.2

in the wrong direction. In today's morning jolt, I wrote about the idea like, this is just

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