The Calm Before the Electoral Storm
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Eli Lake joins the podcast on the eve of the midterm elections to discuss, you know, the midterm elections—and we conclude with a pretty heated discussion of Eli's new COMMENTARY piece, "Can the FBI Be Saved From Itself—And Can We Be Saved From The FBI?" Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. We made it its election day |
| 0:28.0 | Tuesday November 8th 2022 our long national nightmare is over and then of |
| 0:34.0 | course we'll begin the minute that we the minute like five o'clock |
| 0:38.0 | tomorrow morning when we just start talking about Trump versus Biden or |
| 0:41.0 | whoever I'm John Poghorci at our commentary with me is always executive |
| 0:45.0 | editor A. Greenwald hi, John Media commentary columnist in American |
| 0:49.0 | Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen-Heikrstein |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, John and associate editor and author of the rise in the New |
| 0:56.0 | Puritans, Joe Rossman. Hi, John and joining us today one of our favorites |
| 1:01.0 | commentary magazine contributing editor host of the re-education |
| 1:06.0 | podcast I strongly urge you to listen to this week's re-education |
| 1:11.0 | podcast which is about the Israeli elections though its host is maybe |
| 1:16.0 | a little too you know squishy for me on the elections it's a fantastic |
| 1:23.0 | like short, crazy history of Israel in like 15 minutes it's great. |
| 1:30.0 | Eli Lake welcome. Thank you so much and the latest |
| 1:34.0 | episode is my case for divided government before the midterms. |
| 1:39.0 | Oh, okay, that's the latest so last week's was the last week's so Friday. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, well Eli your case is about to come true by all by all reckoning. |
| 1:49.0 | So let's just let's just update people on where we are today. |
| 1:54.0 | So mysteriously this morning after a week in which the 538 deluxe |
| 2:03.0 | probabilistic finding of the poll of polls combined with the |
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