Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling find all the comfort you need in the

quiet lounge Piando ferries there is another way

there's only one candidate in this 2024 race who has called Donald Trump America's Hitler and it's not Joe Biden and it is not Kamala Harris. It is his own nominee.

What does I tell you? This is a you could not script this you could not make this up

Welcome to beg to Defer, the Bull Works Weekly Round Table

discussion featuring civil conversation across the

political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charon,

syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark, and I'm joined by two of

our regulars, Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground and

Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center. Bill Galston is on a reporting trip this week

so we are happy to have my bulwark colleague Andrew Eggers sit in and we are

delighted to welcome a first-time guest New Yorker writer Susan Glasser. She

is joining us from Milwaukee where she is covering the Republican

Convention. You can read her as I say in the New Yorker. Also her most recent book written

with her husband Peter Baker is The Divider, which was a best-selling

history of the Trump administration.

So welcome, one and all. I'd like to begin and by the way I apologize for my

scratchy throat I have a little virus. So let's talk, let's begin with the, with the response to the attempted assassination of Donald

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