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🗓️ 19 October 2017
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0:23.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday October 19th 2017. |
0:29.0 | I'm John Pudworth the editor of commentary the almost 73 year old monthly of political analysis intellectual property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective join us at commentary magazine.com. |
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2:39.0 | Digital publisher Kate Germani has had her fourth child and it's a wonderful thing and we're also looking forward in the next couple of weeks to the arrival in our offices of soraba Mari our senior writer also a man with a young baby like Noah Rothman here we got that young like a year old but has two kids but has a year old so we're very. |
3:06.0 | I have three kids but the youngest is seven it's a we're it's a it's a nursery it's a nursery school over here so we're. |
3:16.0 | fruitful we're multiplying we're trying we're doing our best to deal to overcome the birthd earth here in the United States and one last programming note a time is running out if you want to attend the Joan of Goldberg roast commentary magazines delightful glorious off the record annual. |
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4:03.0 | exciting topic that maybe for the first time in recent memory we can say we are beginning the show without reference to Donald Trump. |
4:17.0 | the story that is an old story but a goody that is gaining traction over the last couple of days involves the Russian government's procurement of an American company trafficking in uranium and the fact that there is substantial evidence of significant |
4:42.0 | crime and bribery involved in securing that transaction and strange behavior by the Obama administration in its early years allowing that transaction to go through and then simultaneously |
4:58.0 | the Russian folks in question paying ungodly sums of money to Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation while they were trying to secure their advantage with this uranium company. |
5:15.0 | so no a Rothman can you lay some of this out for us? |
5:19.0 | in 2009 Russia's nuclear agency Ross Atom which is one of those |
5:29.0 | one of those very Soviet style port mantos that they love so it began buying shares in uranium one which is a company that owns mines around the world |
5:40.0 | and had a particular stake in the United States one of those a very pretty substantial stake by 20% of US uranium capacity at some uranium one properties. |
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