New Year, Same Old
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. |
| 0:27.9 | This is the first podcast of 2021. |
| 0:32.1 | We've been on break for almost two weeks, |
| 0:34.0 | so it's great to be back with you. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm John Fodhortz, the editor of commentary magazine, |
| 0:38.0 | with me as always, executive editor, |
| 0:40.8 | Abe Grimwald-Hye. |
| 0:42.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:43.2 | Senior writer, Christine Rosen-Heikrstein. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, John. |
| 0:46.4 | And associate editor, Noah Rothman-Hye Noah. |
| 0:49.1 | Hi, John. |
| 0:49.9 | So happy new year, everybody. |
| 0:51.9 | We wandered happily through our 10 days or so |
| 1:00.4 | of blissful vacation until yesterday |
| 1:05.4 | when the news came that Donald Trump had been taped on a phone |
| 1:11.1 | call demanding or coaxing the Georgia Secretary of State |
| 1:16.6 | to find him 12,000 votes so that he could win the Georgia |
| 1:21.2 | election. |
| 1:22.2 | No, no, no. |
| 1:23.8 | Exactly 11,780, which is precisely one more vote than Joe Biden's |
| 1:31.7 | margin of victory. |
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