When Biden took office, the legal immigration system was like a cruise ship that was on fire and listing.

It hadn't fully sunk yet, but things weren't looking good.

So right now the fire is out.

They've mostly write it a lot of the list,

but the engines aren't really going yet.

Hello and welcome, why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes. Well, the general election is set barring some unforeseen circumstances.

It's going to be Joe Biden and Donald Trump and for the first

time in 140 or 150 years the two men running against each other each have been president and each

have actual records and one of the things that drives me a little crazy about the way the campaign is framed and covered is the fact that it seems to ignore that fact.

And one thing I've noticed about the vortex of Donald

Trump's sort of intentional vortex is that the craziness around him can obscure

some of the more basic meat and potatoes questions of like where is

Donald Trump on education policy? Where's Joe Biden been on education policy? What have they done with the

Interior Department under Joe Biden and how would that Interior

Department look differently under Donald Trump all these just very basic

meat and potatoes questions about the brass tax of governing so today is the inaugural episode of what we're calling

why is this happening 2024 the stakes where we are going to in a semi-regular

franchise we're gonna look at areas of policy and in a way that really we're trying to be as sort of analytical and descriptive as possible, not polemical. Like, where are the different people on, where are these two different candidates on these policies.

Where have they been?

What did they actually do in office?

Because you don't just have to check their campaign websites.

You don't just have to listen to speeches.

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