The Radicals at Democratic Gates

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The president faces a growing scandal around his response to the allegation that Russia offered bounties to Taliban insurgents for the killing of U.S. troops. But how sound is that intelligence and why do we know about it? Also, Joe Biden skates without any scrutiny of his rapidly self-radicalizing political coalition, but how long can he get away with it? Will the revolution dissolve if he wins... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.0	Today is Tuesday, June 30, 2020. I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine,
0:31.6	the 70-odd year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,
0:35.1	property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us at
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0:44.5	And with me, as always, Executive Editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.
0:49.2	Hi John.
0:49.9	Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine.
0:52.4	Hi John.
0:53.2	And associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.
0:56.0	Hi John.
0:57.7	So the story about the Russians paying the Taliban a bounty to kill Americans
1:09.7	and whether or not the Trump White House and Trump and the Trump administration have responded
1:15.7	to it at all or appropriately or adequately, both is getting deeper and merrier at the same time.
1:23.3	Deeper because we are now told that some aspect of the story was known as early as February 2019.
1:31.6	We are then told that Trump was certainly briefed about it either verbally or on paper sometime
1:40.8	earlier this year. And so this whole question of whether or not they simply refuse to act on
1:47.2	a hostile government that Trump doesn't want to be particularly hostile toward looking to have
1:56.8	Americans killed whether something terrible is going on there. It's murkier because according
2:02.8	to the Associated Press last night, the details of the story are that there was a rumor that this
2:10.8	was happening in 2019. And in 2020, a Taliban hideout was found by American intelligence where there
2:21.9	was half a million dollars in cash. And so there is an extrapolation that they got the half a
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