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Hot takes happy hour with Elise and Dany 🍸

Iran, Pulte and ODNI, Pelley, the media, and we missed out on complaining about Jill Biden
"I will give DP that. As I said on the show, it’s usually not the crime, but the cover-up. But let’s be honest: saying, "You answered all the questions," is evidence Jill never should have put Joe in that position in the first place, having had a front-row seat to his decline. Some intellectual honesty on that point in her book would be nice. But I digress. The bottom line is that Trump is bored with the Iran negotiations, and frankly, so are we. Wake me up when there's a deal. Until then, I'll be sitting by Dany's pool with a cocktail that, oddly enough, is also named Dany. Happy weekend! Next week, more on Ukraine — another war where Trump's instinct to end the war was right, but boredom also got the better of him (and his efforts to placate Putin were misguided). And the band played on"

The saddest words of tongue or pen: What might have been. While we were seriously discussing the slow-rolling fiasco that is becoming Trump Iran policy, contemplating the problem of unqualified nepo babies becoming Director of National Intelligence, railing against the self-important pompousness of reporters who think they’re all that, and complaining about journos who repeat Trump White House leaks verbatim, we forgot to talk about the Edith Wilson of the 21st century, the Queen of Weekend at Bernie’s in the White House, the national embarrassment to the Democratic Party — move over you Nazi guy in Maine — Docktah Jill Biden. Really Jill? Your husband was having a stroke, and your first thought was to tell him, “Good job, you answered all the questions,” as if he was in kindergarten? OK cool.

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