Pompeo and Circumstance

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On our latest COMMENTARY podcast we wonder at the fact that Democrats are going to vote en masse against Mike Pompeo as secretary of state for no real reason other than that they don’t like Trump—and how this marks the fulfillment of a degradation in the advise-and-consent process that’s been accelerating for the past couple of decades. Also, we talk about Stormy Daniels, alas. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:25.5	Today is Wednesday, April 18th, 2018.
0:29.2	I am John Pudhordz, the editor of commentary, the 70-something odd monthly
0:35.0	magazine of fire engines driving behind me, which I don't know if you can hear.
0:40.0	So I'm a little distracted from my ordinary spiel.
0:44.2	So 1995 gets you a digital subscription, 2995 gets you an all-access subscription,
0:50.2	including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year.
0:53.3	With me as always, A Greenwald just in your editor, hi Abe.
0:56.0	Hi John.
0:57.2	No arothman or sociator, hi Noah.
0:59.2	Hello John.
0:59.7	I'll not be with us next week as he is going actually on vacation.
1:03.2	Can you believe it?
1:04.0	No on vacation?
1:04.9	It's terrifying to think about.
1:07.1	And birthday boy, father, Sarabha Maree, son Maximilian, one year old today.
1:16.0	Hi, Sarabha.
1:17.0	Hi John and happy birthday to you.
1:18.5	Oh please, stop already.
1:19.6	So we have a lot of where we're doing our podcast day early today because there's so much going
1:27.2	on that we figured we should jump on the news because basically it is just a
1:33.2	roiling pit of confusion in Trump foreign policy world with the news that Mike Pompeo,
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