Flynn and Saudi Arabia: Turn and Face the Strange Ch-Ch-Changes

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On the first COMMENTARY podcast of the week, we ask whether the Michael Flynn plea indicates huge trouble for the Trump White House or will prove to be much ado about nothing. But in the “much ado about something” category, we place the astonishing report that Saudi honcho Muhammad bin Sultan has effectively endorsed an Israeli peace proposal and sought to impose it on recalcitrant Palestinian... Source

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0:00.0	music
0:23.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, December 4th, 2017.
0:29.2	I am John Pudhoritz the editor of commentary the 73-year-old monthly of
0:34.2	political, probity, intellectual analysis and cultural criticism from a
0:37.6	conservative perspective. Join us at commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and then
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0:51.3	our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year with me as always senior editor Abe
0:56.7	Greenwald the birthday boy 46 years old today high Abe sold hi John no a Rothman considerably younger
1:04.3	associate editor hi Noah hi John and Sarabamari even a little younger than Noah high Sora
1:10.4	senior writer hi John happy birthday happy birthday but I'm like I there's a kind of a
1:16.7	multi-generational thing here going on because I'm 56 Abe was 46 Noah is 35 yeah that was
1:26.6	hoping you were gonna sorry I'm sorry I was 33 32 man oh man 32 that is just you know that when you
1:37.2	know 32 years ago you know what I was doing I was like sitting at home in front of the TV watching
1:42.3	the hands across America or something like that that that that's that's the day that you were born
1:48.0	I just want to point out I was either watching hands across America I was seeing like back to
1:52.1	the future I don't know something like that while you were you know and what's more not even born
1:57.8	in this country that's right born in terran so we have we have a great we have we have we have a
2:04.7	generational chasm we have we have damn millennial sitting here and baby boomers and generation
2:11.6	exers and it's you know we have we cover the waterfront and it's really a terrible thing but you
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2:25.6	been great about it I do want to point out that in the arms race Jonah Goldberg again is like
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