Is De Niro Biden's Idea of a Youngster?

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Why on earth would the Biden campaign haul out 80 year-old Robert De Niro to tussle with protesters outside the New York courthouse? Could it be that, for Biden, De Niro is a strapping young fellow with the vim and vigor to speak to today's youth? More seriously, Jonathan Schanzer joins us with some actual good news coming out of the Israeli effort in Rafah. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst. Welcome to the
0:25.3	the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. I am John Podhoor
0:32.1	I'm John Podhoritz.
0:33.1	The editor of Commentary magazine with me is always executive editor,
0:36.0	Abe Greenwald.
0:36.7	Hi, Abe.
0:37.6	Hi, Abe.
0:38.6	Senior editor Seth Mandel.
0:39.6	Hi Seth.
0:40.8	Hi, Seth.
0:41.8	And joining us today, commentary contributing editor and Puba of many hats at the
0:49.4	Foundation for the Defense of democracies, our good friend Jonathan Schanser,
0:55.0	hi Jonathan.
0:56.0	Hey John.
0:58.0	All right, so we got to get to Rafa and the errand thing that happened that first was an Israeli mistake and may not have been an Israeli mistake and various other things.
1:14.2	But I guess we sort of have to start with the first, the closing arguments in the Trump trial,
1:19.4	which of course none of us watched as we don't have TV in the courtrooms here in New York City and we were all, if you're paying attention, you were following on Twitter through various feeds of people who were sort of trying to summarize what was going on and of course there were
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