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magazine daily podcast today is Friday. What is the date? May 27 May 27, 2022. I'm John

Pudworth, the editor of Commentary Magazine. Once again, having to talk to

over my phone rather than over my better computer audio. I apologize. But the

good news is that Christine Rosen, our senior writer is back. Hi Christine. Hi John.

Along with Abe Greenwald, our executive editor, hi Abe. Hi John. And associate editor

Noah Rossman. Hi John. So we have been, you know, tearing ourselves apart here in

the United States over the meaning, the larger meaning of the horrible shooting in

Texas on Tuesday. And it appears that a new wrinkle has come up in the discussion of

the entire matter, which is that those who are tasked with either preventing

interdicting or stopping these kinds of events from happening, the people we

empower to do that as a society. There is increasing evidence that they were that

law enforcement was incredibly derelict in its handling of this matter in a way

that is almost unimaginable. And maybe the the second tranche of stories

suggesting this are are going to be revised yet again. And it's going to turn out that

it's not the case that there was no one on duty at the school. It's not the case that

he was shooting for 10 minutes before even got into the school where that it took them

47 or 48 minutes to find him and not it wasn't even them, but wasn't even law enforcement

that found them it was a border patrol agent who exceeding his writ when it's the building

to try to rescue or do what he could to stop to stop the events from happening. So that

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