Welcome to the Compton Magazine Podcast today is Thursday January 4th.

2018 and John Pudworth is the editor of Commentary Magazine the 73-year-old monthly of political

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mailbox 11 times here with me as always senior editor Abe Grimwell hello Abe hi John

associate editor Noah Rothman hi Noah hi John and senior writer Sorob Amari hi Sorob

good morning John so there's a book out it's not out yet it's the out next week there have been

excerpt and two articles about it in the last 24 hours Michael Wolfe the slippery interesting

slippery untrustworthy unprincipled journalist of many many year standing what a great book called

burn rate about the dot com boom in which he attempted to make a killing and then failed to do so

what a biography of rumor rock now has this book out about his year hanging around the

Trump White House access unprecedented that he got because he wrote very kindly about the

Trump campaign and a Trump's movement in the Hollywood Reporter in the months before the election

Trump like the pieces ban and like the pieces they gave him access and he sat apparently mostly on

a couch on the first floor of the west wing watching people go by and interviewing them and seeing

things and uh fairness say that um uh this is the grenade uh that is blowing up the second year of

the of the of the Trump White House so I say it's a grenade I mean it's not a bomb because you know

it's not going to destroy it but it may it's already uh doing uh immense damage uh in some ways

and Noah uh so we'll take on Sarriottom what it means how to trust it how trustworthy is it

and how the responses to it but uh obviously we have to start with our our good friend um

and Machiavellian genius at his own mind Steve Bannon uh Noah what's going on with Trump and

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