Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.

I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes, David French and Jonah Goldberg.

We are going to discuss this administration's potentially unprecedented bad six weeks.

We will first start with immigration.

Then trouble on the foreign policy front.

First with our allies, then still Afghanistan.

And finally is Joe Biden just bad at his job?

Let's dive right in.

Immigration has really moved to the fore, although it's been a problem throughout the Biden

administration.

Steve, I want to first start with the diagnosis of what caused this problem.

Well, this is a problem that's been long at the making.

And we've talked about it before.

Nobody should be surprised about this.

Senior Biden administration officials, including the president himself, both as a candidate

and then later as president elect, were asked specific questions about this.

And suggested that they understood that there was likely to be this surge of migrants.

They seem wholly unprepared to deal with it and have since January 20th when the president

was sworn in.

They seem to have been taken surprise by the early surges in the spring, which again were

predicted.

They named Kamala Harris by his president as the overseer of immigration policy.

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