Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, May 20, 2020.

I am John Puthworth the editor of commentary the 70 odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis political,

property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.

We invite you as always to join us at commentary magazine.com where we are putting up the contents of our June issue today and tomorrow.

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senior editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John.

Associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah, hi John and joining us today.

Commentary contributor and Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake,

whose blockbuster piece a couple months ago, the FBI scandal went into the misuse of the

FISA courts and warrants and various things that typified the behavior of the James Comey FBI.

And he has now followed that piece up with another in our June issue now available at commentary magazine.com called the Railroading of Michael Flynn.

Thanks for joining us again Eli. Thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here.

Great. So we'll get to Michael Flynn in a moment. Any updates, things, Corona things we want to talk about aside from my favorite fact that my mayor, our mayor,

Bill DeBlosio, having declared that people would be pulled out of the ocean. If they dared go into the ocean on Memorial Day weekend,

then complained that beaches in Long Island were not going to be friendly enough to New Yorkers who were not allowed to swim in the ocean in New York City,

but could should be able to drive to Long Island to swim in their beets to swim in their ocean.

Thus proving that when you are an idiot, your idiocy literally knows no bounds. I mean, this may be the single dumbest political thing that I've ever seen.

I can't think of anything quite as dumb as this ever.

Anybody, anybody have a comparable dumbness, a dumb thing, anybody, you say you're going to pull people out of the water and then you complain that the beach 10 miles away is saying, well, don't come here. If you're, you know, you're not allowed to come here. And then you say that's not new. The person who said, well,

pull people out of the water, complains that that's unfair to his citizens who he was going to arrest for going into the water.

Well, the only dumb thing I saw a little closer here to Washington, DC was a bar in Ocean City, Maryland, which is going to open up by allowing some people probably seen this story that they're going to give them kind of walking

into the intertubes to stand in so that they can keep the six foot social distancing requirement. And they look like they literally have turned themselves into like human bumper cars when they wear them.

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