Law for the Law-Abiding

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake is back on the show to talk about why recently released transcripts from 2016 only support the conclusions his article on the railroading of Michael Flynn by the Justice Department. Also, the elite liberal revolt against the notion that law and order should be restored by all available means, and the political backlash that may be brewing among the law-abiding... Source

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0:00.0	music.
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday June 4th 2020.
0:29.5	I'm John Putt or it's the editor of commentary the sound quality of this
0:34.5	episode may be different from what we've got used to over the last couple of
0:40.0	weeks. The program that we use to record this only allows for four of us on at any
0:47.1	given time. And so we have five today because with along with us along with
0:53.2	associate editor noa Rossman high Noah. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen
0:59.9	high Christine. Hi John. And senior editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. We
1:06.6	have commentary contributor Eli Lake author of the blockbuster article the
1:10.2	railroading of Michael Flynn and a blog post this week on how the release of
1:16.8	the transcript of the phone traffic between Michael Flynn and Sergei Kisley
1:21.6	actor Russian ambassador simply deepens and proves more decisively the theory
1:27.4	that Eli lays out in his blockbuster piece in the June 2020 issue. Hello Eli. Great
1:33.7	to be here John. Okay so anyway we so yes we're using Skype today and it may
1:40.5	sound different but you know you'll just have to live with that because this is
1:44.1	going to be one exciting episode. So I believe that as we enter we're approaching
1:50.5	the beginning of the second week of the George Floyd protests that we are
1:58.1	seeing the cultural revolution overtake the protest in the sense that we have now
2:06.1	seen New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Breeze compelled to apologize for
2:12.1	saying yesterday that he disagreed with Colin Kaepernick the former NFL
2:16.5	quarterback strategy of taking a knee during the national anthem Breeze saying
2:23.7	that he did not believe in disrespecting the flag and that his grandfather's
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