You know we're not asking Joe Biden who I think was with my ideological arguments aside a pretty decent president

we're not asking him to make the decision whether or not to melt Nagasaki in Hiroshima and kill 100,000 people.

We're not asking him whether to wage the Civil War.

We're asking him at 81 to step aside

for what's good for the country and the party

in an extremely high-stakes election.

Yet apparently that is unpalatable and the Biden operation now is walking around

of a big mallet whacking down Democrats who might say that behind the scenes and they are operating

with Vichy Republican level cowardice. It's 5 p.m. on Sunday June 30th here in New York City. It is midnight on Monday,

on Monday, July 1st in Israel as Israelis get ready to start their day.

We have let Mike Murphy, a fan favorite of the comedy podcast,

going a little bit of a sopatical while we have been consumed with events in the Middle East, but now events in American politics are coming crashing into events around the world and our audience around the world is trying to understand

what is actually happening here. So I called up Mike Murphy, longtime Republican

strategist who I've worked with on and off for about three decades and who's been the chief

strategies for more successful statewide campaigns, Senate, Governor, than I can

count and has been a chief strategist for Republican presidential

campaigns and now has a love hate relationship with the Republican Party in

recent years and is the co-host of the critically acclaimed Hacks on Tap

podcast Mike good to be with you good to be with you Dan good to be back it's been a while well stuff's been happening and now we finally had the bomb go off in American politics for a change.

Right, so I want to jump right into that.

We got a lot to cover, so I just want to set up where your head was at and you talked a little bit

about this on your

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