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Today is Monday. I believe the 11th of November. Is that correct? Armistice day,

the veterans day. I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary. With me as

always senior editor, a Greenwald high A. John associated with

Erdogan Rothman. I know. I know. I'm in Washington senior writer, Christine Rose

and high Christine. Hi John. It was excited to meet a bunch of podcast listeners

and commentary readers at this weekend's remarkable Jewish Conservatism

Conference in New York sponsored primarily by the Tickva Fund and Roger Hurtog,

commentary's incredibly generous donor and one-time roasty. 950 people were

in attendance at the Grand Hyatt Hotel where the 2019 Hurtzle Prize was

awarded to my father, Norman Pudhord. Anyway, thanks for everybody who came up to

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11 times a year. Now we sit in New York and yet another New Yorker seems a

poised to enter the presidential race. Michael Bloomberg, richest man in New York

City, according to some calculations with $53 billion of wealth, having bought

himself three mayoral elections now may be seeks to buy himself a presidency

and of all people on the planet earth he is one of the five or ten who kind of

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