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Welcome to the commentary magazine, Daily Podcast.

Today is Wednesday, July 26th, 2023.

I'm John Pundewart, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always, executive editor,

Dean Greenwald, hi.

John, media commentary columnist, Christine Rosen, high Christine, and Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, our Washington commentary columnist, Matthew Kunt, and Eddie Heimatt.

Hi, John.

I want to start off by saying we made a really stupid error yesterday on the rather wild podcast we did.

Eli Lake asked by me who Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner was mistook Devon Archer for, I'm sorry, don't have his proper first name, but for another business partner of Hunter Biden's that is the son of the late Senator John Heim's, who actually left his business relationship behind.

With Hunter Biden and Devon Archer out of the, it appears out of some, this comforter with what was going on with barisma, so I regret the error of this identifying Devon Archer and young.

Chris Hines, Christopher Hines.

Yes, thank you very much.

I want to say one brief thing about the last couple interesting, touchy time here in America, and we are seeing it also in the, in the emails we receive here at the commentary magazine park has a lot of people are getting kind of annoyed with us and they think a lot of people who are not where Leah Leibovitz and I are on the issue of Israel's political crisis.

I wrote lengthy emails condemning us and saying we got things wrong and we've been getting somebody wrote yesterday that they deeply distressed by how irreverent our show was yesterday and I cursed a little at the end that that's not what they're looking for.

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