Mickey teases a tantalizing reconciliation rumor ... Biden backs off campaign promise to raise refugee cap ... Bob worries that there’s a loophole in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal ... Rising Russia-U.S. tensions ... Should we pledge to defend Taiwan? ... Mickey: Corporate political activism is an alarming anti-democratic trend ... Bob scolds the Washington Post ... Israel’s attack on Iran and on American diplomacy ... J.D. Vance’s senatorial ambitions ... Parrot Room preview: Bob’s genius point about Israel and identity politics, more Jeffrey Goldberg trash talk, how Dominion Voting Systems is helping Fox, Naomi Wolfe and Steve Bannon form an unholy alliance ...