The All I'm going to be easy to jump is up. Hello everybody it's Monday July 8th and we've got Chapo coming at you

joining us on today's program are two journalists that we've had on the show

before who have just as of this morning

decamped from the intercept to hang out their own shingle at drop site news.com.

Please welcome to the show Ryan Grimm and Jeremy Skahill.

Boys, welcome to the show and how does it feel to be independent?

Feels liberating, tell you what?

What do you think, Jeremy?

I mean, the first stop had to be to come into the trap house.

Well, it's been way too long. You come to the trap house. Well, it's been way too long.

You come to the trap house for that straight drop,

and that's what we're looking up here today.

A gentleman, it's been an extraordinary couple of weeks

in American politics, but the thing I want to start talking about is while the Democratic Party and the National Press Corps is scrambling to metabolize the current reality of Biden's diminishing

mental capacity and what they're going to do about this presidential election,

there's a certain part of me that feels that they are in some sense relieved to not be talking about what's happening in Gaza right now because as of you know the end of the school year like most of the protests have been physically removed from public presence in American life and it

Reporting I mean it seems the national press has dropped off the cliff in terms of what's going on in Gaza

But like in in the last two weeks of like as

Biden hemorrhages support from people like you know when Rob Reiner and

Stephen King jump off the bag wagon it's a bandwagon it's a bandwagon it's really hard

but the refrain I keep hearing from these

Biden supporters like even as they say it's time for him to go is that he's just such a

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