I have a dream, this nation will rise up, live up the true meaning of its creed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here.

The first person I was instructed to call on was Kellero Donald NBC.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work.

Mr. Robachoff, tear down this wall.

It's the Ricochet Podcast with Rob Long and Peter Robinson.

I'm James Lylekson, today we talk to Congressman Mike Gallagher about Afghanistan.

Let's have ourselves a podcast.

I can hear you!

Welcome everybody, it's the Ricochet Podcast, number 558.

I'm James Lylekson, Minneapolis.

Peter Robinson is somewhere in sunny California.

Rob Long, we believe, is in San Francisco and is elbowed his way through the homeless hordes

and scraped the detritus office shoes to be with us, so give us a report on Babylon in the bay in just a little bit.

But of course, the big story.

I don't know about you guys, but yesterday when I saw Biden put his head in his hands

while answering a question or trying to.

I imagine Putin sitting up straight in his chair and thinking,

oh my god, I thought I was going to have the Baltics back by 2035, but I'm going to have them back by 2024.

I've never seen an image like that portrayed.

And people are saying, oh, well, it's a sign of his compassion and his fellow feeling on the rest of it.

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