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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, May 22, 2020. I am John

Potthorts, the editor of commentary the 70-odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis,

political, probity and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join

us as always at commentarymagazine.com. We'll give you a few free reads and then ask you to

subscribe. Our June issue is up as I've been telling you with Eli Lake's blockbuster article,

the Railroading of Michael Flynn, which is burning up the internet and well worth your time

and attention. Also pieces by Noah Rothman, Christine Rosen, me, Terry Teachout, Andy

Smarrick, Wind Weldon, Rob Long, Matt Contnetti, Mayor Sullivan, Casey Johnson and Stewart Taylor,

just a panoply of riches. So, a June issue commentary magazine.com. With me as always,

senior editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.

Hi John. Because I was just about to say jpotthortsatgmail.com because

the program we're now using to record for reasons to complicated to explain Noah Rothman's name

is attached to my email address. But it's of course associated editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.

Hi John, you can tell me later if you want me to edit out your personal email out of this

recording. Okay, it's well who cares. Anyway, so I don't even know where to begin. So,

somebody else decide where where we should begin. Don't all jump in at once. You just you all

depend on me to just you know like monologue for 20 minutes and you can all drink coffee and

you know, okay well I'll jump in and say I spoke to a friend of mine this morning who's a small

business owner here in DC and you know we have our new phase one reopening. The mayor of DC is

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