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Steve, Jonah, and Michael are joined by TMD editor Mary Trimble to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress and the subsequent protests. They also analyze Kamala Harris’ response, elite wagon-circling, Donald Trump’s scary unification of the Republican Party, and Joe Biden’s withdrawal.
The Agenda:
—Bipartisan moments: Iran and October 7
—Israel’s place in U.S. politics and its own domestic politics
—Pro-Hamas protests
—Why isn’t Kamala Harris having her “Sister Souljah moment?”
—The mainstream media’s spin on “border czar”
—How the assassination attempt changed nothing about Donald Trump
—Was Biden’s speech worth our time?
Show Notes:
—Harris' statement on the D.C. protests, published after recording this episode
—Video of the D.C. Palestinian Youth Movement releasing maggots
—The Morning Dispatch
—Axios article on “border czar” mistake
—Montage of news anchors saying “border czar”
—GovTrack scrubbing its rating of Kamala Harris as the “most liberal senator”
—Politico’s “law and order” quotes from Kamala Harris
—G-File on Jonah’s “Sigh of Relief”
—Laura Loomer’s loony tweet
—Nick Catoggio’s “Wishful Thinking”
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On yet another emergency edition of Dispatch Live, Sarah is joined by Steve, Jonah, and Mike to break down President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
The Agenda:
—Should Biden resign?
—What a Kamala Harris campaign might look like
—The campaign finance question
Show Notes:
—Dispatch Politics: Biden Withdraws From the 2024 Election
—Boiling Frogs: The Return of the Smoke-Filled Room
—Cole Murphy: How Democrats Could Replace Joe Biden as Their Nominee, Explained
—Dispatch Editorial: It’s Democrats’ Turn to Make the Hard Decision
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Eliot Cohen, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks a second Trump term won’t have a dramatic effect on American foreign policy. He joins Jamie to debate this point, the risk of pulling out of NATO and abandoning allies, and whether America is bound to retreat from global affairs.
NOTE: This episode was recorded on Friday, July 19, 2024—two days before President Joe Biden announced he wouldn’t be running for reelection.
The Agenda:
—Cohen’s piece in The Atlantic
—Pulling out of NATO
—The proliferation of nuclear weapons
—Relationships with China and Taiwan
—Concerns about J.D. Vance advising Trump
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It's Dispatch After Hours. Our intrepid reporters stayed up till the wee hours to catch former President Trump's full speech on the last night at the Republican National Convention. In a manic edition of Dispatch Live, a sleep-deprived Sarah is joined by Jonah and Steve... as well as the entire Dispatch Politics team—David M. Drucker, Michael Warren, John McCormack, and Charles Hilu—reporting from the convention in Milwaukee. Was Trump able to stick the landing on his unity speech (or for that matter, to stick to the script)? Are Republicans going through an existentialist phase? Will Biden still be the nominee next week? Was the convention worth our time? What are we even doing here?
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Sarah, Steve, Jonah, and David French discuss the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.
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NOTE: This episode was recorded last week July 10, before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy joins Jamie on today’s episode to discuss the surprise rise of the far-left in the French elections and its implications for Western foreign policy. Plus: why BHL’s glad he’s not American.
Agenda:
—French antisemitism
—How extremism is devouring the center
—Why Jews must stay in France
—The “made-up” question of migrants
—Broken economic schemes
—Why America actually won in Afghanistan
—“Ukraine and Israel are two front lines of the same war”
Show Notes:
—Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld’s remarks on voting
—Jeffrey Goldberg’s “Is it time for Jews to leave Europe?”
—BHL’s “In The Footsteps of Tocqueville”
—BHL’s “The Afghan Who Won’t Surrender to the Taliban”
—Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
—Douglas Murray
—Adam Gopnik
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