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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, August 20th, 2021.

I'm John Puthhawar. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always.

Executive editor Noah Rossman. Hi Noah.

Hi, John. I got a promotion. I'm, excuse me.

You did. I'm sorry. You're an associate editor, Noah Rossman. Don't hold me to this.

That's probably leading to binding since I said it publicly. We are having, I know, a hate when I say

this, but we're having technical problems today. So I'm a little rattled. So we'll see how this goes.

There are going to be some gaps and for all I know this whole thing is not going to work at all. But

the, no, Rossman is an associate editor. Executive editor is a Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi John. Happy to share my job with Noah.

Thank you. And senior writer Christine Rose and the only person to hold that title. Hi Christine.

Hi John. So we are recording this Friday morning, sometime early this afternoon.

The president will speak to the crisis at the airport in Kabul and whatever else it is that he

has to say or wants to say. I know you wanted to begin or wanted to have a conversation

about a thread done by our friend Jim Garrity at National Review on Twitter. Raising questions that I

I brought up yesterday, I think, about the 25th amendment, meaning what on earth is going on

this week with Joe Biden. A most important week of his presidency, biggest crisis of his presidency.

We have crises on two fronts, by the way, because we are crowded out the crisis in COVID and the

Delta variant, which is accelerating, but is a very specific kind of crisis that is not being dealt

with, in my view, correctly by our public health authorities, not surprisingly, is, of course,

slightly on the back burner because of the overwhelming crisis in Afghanistan. But he is facing

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