Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year. And so we will be doing two podcasts

a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to and because we know you can't get enough

Americano in your life. I am delighted to be joined today by Todd Bensman, who is fellow at the

Centre for Immigration Studies and author of Overrun,

how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history. Todd, we've had you on before,

and I think you may have been at the border then. You're at the border still. You're in Texas.

Yes, I'm in Eagle Pass Texas well we'd

like to talk to you about the crisis at the border which I think the Biden

administration has now acknowledged is a crisis or accepted is a crisis but before we do

that I think given the week that Joe Biden has had I'd like to ask you just

quickly if you

don't mind about how bad Joe Biden's sort of frailty, physical and mental frailty, is getting

in the mind of the American public. I mean, this week we've had three quite major mistakes. He

mistook Emmanuel Macron for Mitterrand from Germany, he said.

He mistook the Egyptian president Al-Sisi for said he was Mexico's president.

And he mulled up Angela Merkel and helmet Cole, if I'm remembering.

It's actually always easy when criticizing Biden's memory to

get it wrong yourself, but I think I've got that right. And another thing happened yesterday,

which is that the Department of Justice produced this sort of odd report about Biden, which was

almost excusing him over his lack of memory on the documents, sorry, the

classified, hoarding classified documents thing.

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