Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday December 15, 2020.

I am John Pudhord, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe

Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi John. An associate editor, Noah Rossman,

high Noah. Hi John. Abe and I just closed our January issue, which is

chock full of fantastic stuff. We'll be releasing most of it over the course of

this week at commentary magazine.com where we give you a few free reads and ask you

subscribe tomorrow on the podcast. We will have ELA Lake author of the cover

piece, which is called Framed and Guilty the Last Word on Trump and Russia.

Christine has a really great piece about Margaret Sullivan, the self-appointed

media critic columnist of the Washington Post and her role as leader, self-appointed

role as leader of the resistance against Trump. A lot of other important stuff.

So please go to commentary magazine.com and subscribe because you'll want to

read many of our items and you can only read a few before you hit the dreaded

paywall. Last night after the electoral college had state by state had

signed its electors and sufficient numbers to Joe Biden to elect him

president of the United States. So that in January those tallies have to be

formally accepted by the House and Senate for the final final final declaration

that Biden is the president elect and that only only death can stop him before

the 20th of January. So Joe Biden gave a talk, a speech at about 7 pm last

night and it was I thought good. That is to say that he said we the president has

had had every opportunity to contest and use the fair legal processes of the

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