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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast for Wednesday, September 23, 2020.

I'm John Puthhore. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always associate editor Noah Rothman.

Hi Noah. Hi John. Executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rose at high Christine. Hi John.

Christine laughing because we can see each other on this kind of zoom in screen.

And Abe was, Abe was just about to take a big sip of coffee since I don't have a pattern.

So I don't have a pattern for who I call, who, who might introduce first.

You just got to be on your toe. Totally, totally caught me off guard like that.

I feel like that's like a dangerous spot.

Yeah. Okay, so, so the, it appears that the Supreme Court nomination is, you know, is gaining momentum.

Story just out from Bloomberg says that there will be hearings beginning October 12th and a

final vote on October 26th, which is cutting it pretty close if you think about it, that is to say that

if anything were to happen that would throw a wrench into the proceedings, you know, which is

what happened with Kavanaugh, right there. They had to delay it for a week. The, the time will not

permit a delay. So this really will have to be a, you know, a muscling through process.

And of course, a muscling through process that happens with a week to go in the election,

if it appears to be muscled through and if, you know, some allegation that is, you know,

not entirely science fictional were to come up and Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham nonetheless

like push this nomination through the possibility of igniting a, a furer and, you know, the classic

wine ladies that Noah was talking about yesterday, having been a guy.

My mom's wine ladies, wine ladies are a defined constituency, totally demographic, or totally

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