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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday, September

9th, 2021. Happy days of awe to all who observed

Russia Shana as we did, which is why we've been off. We were off Labor Day and

then Tuesday and Wednesday for Russia Shana. And we are back with you. I'm John

Pajor. It's the editor of commentary. If I didn't say that before, with me as

always executive editor, a Breedwall high-aid.

Hi John. Associate editor in O'Authman High Nala.

Hi John. And senior writer Christine Rosen-Heikrstein.

Hi John. So it's been six days since we have gathered to

Bimone the state of everything and things haven't gotten any better.

So it's a funny sort of thing. It's like it's like a checkoff play. We're just

getting together in every morning to say I wish we could go to Moscow. Right now,

we have, I had the weird experience of being up very early this morning,

watching the opening of Morning Joe with a kind of celebration of the Biden

administrations continuing triumph in the humanitarian mission to help people out

of Afghanistan. Americans left there after the fall of Kabul and our our flight

from Afghanistan because this one plane apparently was allowed to take off from

Kabul. And so we are now to celebrate the glorious, I'm sure, ransoming in some

fashion or other that led to this takeoff of this plane that does not have any

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