Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Izger joined by David French,

Jonah Goldberg, and Declan Garvey, our editor extraordinaire of the morning dispatch.

Plenty to talk about today, the Biden administration taking up some interesting positions.

Then we have Republican governors also taking some interesting positions.

We'll end with the streaming wars. And of course our new segment,

the thing we didn't wasn't worth your time.

Let's say I write in, David, the Biden administration this week had two interesting decisions.

The first title 42, this is the public health title that the CDC has used to bar basically

asylum seekers from coming in the United States from the southern border in particular.

The White House announcing that they were going to stop using title 42 to stop asylum seekers,

moderate Democrats sponsoring bills in the Senate to force the Biden administration to have a plan

to deal with the presumed influx of immigrants, you know, at 14,000 a day according to Department

of Homeland Security Intelligence could be coming in when title 42 is rescinded.

In the meantime, the administration seeming unmoved by the pleas from vulnerable and moderate

Democrats. Then we had a federal judge in Florida strike down the federal transportation mask

mandate on planes, trains and I guess, well, some automobiles. And the administration taking

its time, but in the end, filing a notice of appeal to put that mask mandate back in place.

David, is this the opposite of what Obama, data guru David Shore called popularism?

Yeah, it is the opposite of it. And you know, the interesting thing is there's there's ways to do

what the Biden administration wants to do, but that take care of public concern. So for example,

title 42, public, it's a public health measure. It's not originally designed to be an immigration

enforcement measure. And if you have an immigration, immigration enforcement issue, you can say,

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