This Is a Land of Confusion

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The implementation of a policy that separates illegal border-crossing children from their parents has thrown the Trump administration into crisis, in part, because no one is on the same page. Depending on the official speaking, this policy is either a necessary deterrent to future migrants, an unfortunate vestigial artifact of the Obama administration, or the law of the land. The hosts break down... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Tuesday.
0:29.8	June 19th 2018 we are recording this a day late because on a 90-some odd degree
0:36.7	day in New York City yesterday the air conditioning unit in the commentary
0:41.6	magazine offices decided to stop working and it was 211 degrees in the
0:47.7	office and it's already 211 degrees in our podcasting room and so it was
0:54.3	422 degrees in the podcasting room and therefore we are a day late to come
1:01.4	talk to you from the offices of commentary where only one of the four of us is
1:09.6	present. Sarabamari I believe you are at the office is that correct senior
1:14.5	writer Sarabamari? Yes sir but Noah Rothman is at his collatial home in New
1:19.4	Jersey is that correct Noah? Yes yes all 2,000 square feet it's just
1:27.0	all over because he was he was both tweeting and texting and I had my thing
1:33.8	muted because I had snorted in the microphone and was annoying myself. Okay and
1:38.1	Abe Greenwell you are home is that correct? Yes equally polatial apartment in
1:43.1	a minute. Yes okay and I am because I am we are renovating my apartment which
1:52.2	started today redoing a hundred-year-old floors I'm not joking I believe some
1:57.6	of the floors in my apartment are a hundred years old so I am in the
2:02.9	palatial home precinct of my my parents Norman Pobhoritz and and
2:09.4	midge dector who are elsewhere in this apartment watching some British
2:14.5	detective show that they've already seen 18 times which is mostly what they do
2:19.6	they inspect your McGillicutty inspector Morse inspector Fattushin some Danish
2:26.5	show about you know the takeover of Denmark by Sweden I don't know what they're
2:31.8	just they they are like the world's biggest peak TV viewers if you think that
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