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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Inaugurating the Biden Era with Meghan McCain

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Host of ABC’s “The View,” Meghan McCain, joins the podcast today to talk about Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, the fallout from the January 6 Capitol Building riots, and what it will be like to host a daytime talk show without President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Wednesday, January 20th, 2021,

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inauguration day for President Joseph Robin at Biden Jr. I am John Podhor, the editor of

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commentary with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyay. Hi John, associate editor

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Norrothman Hynawa. Hi John. And joining us today, a great honor, a great privilege,

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a supporter of the show, fan of the show, friend of the show, Megan McCain of the view, and many other

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forms of conservative commentary and liberal precinct. Hi Megan, thanks for joining us.

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Thank you so much for having me John. I'm so excited. I pitched myself to come on. I was like,

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I'm not going to wait anymore for you guys to invite me. I'm just going to invite myself and then

1:09.5

know it was nice enough to reach out on Twitter. And I think I'm this podcast like definitely like top

1:15.6

five fans, maybe the top fan. I listen every single day, including when I was pregnant and including

1:22.3

after I gave birth. So that's pretty pretty much commitment. And I started listening every day

1:27.9

during the pandemic. I had been listening before but then I got consistent because we were locked down.

1:32.4

And I felt really ideologically alone and like just really lost in the world and this podcast

1:39.0

really, I was like, these are my people. Everything they say is what I feel and how I feel like

1:44.0

just some pateco and I've just really think you do important work and I'm I love the podcast.

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So please keep doing it forever. Okay, and that's our show for

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can't beat that. Thank you so much. But you know, of course, this is a this is an extraordinarily

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important day. We have the 46th president of the United States. Yeah. It's worn in weirdly enough.

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Sworn in nine minutes early. There seem to be some bad watching of the clock. The 20th

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amendment says that the transfer of power takes place on the 20th of January at noon. Somehow

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they got ahead of themselves. I thought it was coming because Kamala Harris got us sworn in.

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