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🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Noah Rothman returns to the podcast after vacation to take up the ouster of the Homeland Security secretary in the midst of a crisis at the border that makes the president sound like the boy who cried wolf and makes the Democrats sound like they just want the crisis to continue to score political points for themselves. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday April 8th,
0:29.7	2019 I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary magazine back with us from an extended
0:36.6	sojourn in the Caribbean our own Noah Rothman associate or high Noah hi John with us as always a
0:43.0	Greenwald senior editor hi Abe hi John and in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen Hi John
0:48.7	hi John so of course commentary is the 70 odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis,
0:53.9	political, poverty and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective as you know you
0:57.6	can join us at commentary magazine.com we give you a few free reads we ask you to subscribe
1:02.8	1995 for a digital subscription 2995 for an all-access subscription including our beautiful monthly
1:09.3	magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year so the big news over the weekend was the
1:15.2	defenestration of Kristen Nielsen the Homeland Security secretary by Donald Trump preceded by
1:23.0	the pre-defenestration of the guy who had been named to run the immigration and customs
1:29.2	enforcement agency whose name I can't remember and whose name I don't have to remember because
1:33.8	Trump withdrew his nomination before he was formally nominated right at saying he wanted he
1:41.3	was a good guy but he wanted a tougher guy. Nielsen has been on the chopping block pretty much
1:46.9	from about three hours after she became Homeland Security secretary there's a great bit in the
1:53.4	musical how to succeed in business without really trying where the book that the that the
2:00.4	protagonist is following to get to the top of this corporation says you need to become a vice
2:06.2	president you need to become a vice president and then he's made a vice president the book says
2:11.8	the one job you do not want is vice president in charge of advertising and then his boss says
2:17.6	Finch your vice president in charge of advertising and I'm very unhappy with the job you've been doing
2:23.1	so far that was Trump with Kristen Nielsen I mean according to these stories like literally the
2:29.0	week that she started the job he started calling her through the morning and yelling at her you know
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