Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Monday, September 19, 2022. I'm John Pauldhord. It's the editor of

commentary magazine. We are actually recording this on Sunday night, the 18th. So we

might be a little punchy. And you're just going to have to roll with it with me as

always executive editor, a greenwald high-aid.

Hi, John. Media commentary columnist and American

Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi, John. An associate editor and author of the rise of the New

Puritans, Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John.

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apple before we make you subscribe. Sorry, there was a little noise there.

I told you it's raw. Joe Biden was on 60 minutes last night, which is to say

tonight, which is say a couple of hours ago as we're recording this, but it's

last night as you were listening to it. It was his first interview in Get This,

his first one on one interview in 223 days.

And as I, here's my question for you. So he did fine.

Aben I watched, I don't know if I think Noah didn't, I don't know if Christine got to watch it.

I was eating steak. No, I'm sorry. I'm really steak and no it was probably cooking steak

and Aben I watched it. And he was fine, which raises two-possed questions. One of which is

it's weird that the White House won't let him go out and do these interviews or he doesn't

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