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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday April 22nd.

2019 I am John Pajor it's the editor of commentary the 70-odd year old monthly of intellectual

analysis political property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.

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I hope you had for the listeners who celebrate or observe I hope you had a ziz and pesoch and

that and that your satyrs did not go on too long or conversely if what you love is a really

really long satyr that you satyr went on longer than you could even possibly have wished for.

So with me as always so see that or no Rothman high know hi John senior editor a greenwald hi

hi John and senior writer Christine Rosen from Washington high Christine hi John okay so we're

four days we're T plus four from the release of the Mueller report we did most of our last show

and the Mueller reports are now we have really is the question of the reaction to the Mueller report.

So know what give me your quick quick overview.

All right so at the risk of basically doing everything that I'm writing right now for commentarymagazine.com

sort of spoiling my own post there's been two reactions one from the pro-Trump side and one from

the anti-Trump side that are I guess indicative of the partisan extremes on the pro-Trump side's

response is sort of a testament to how Democrats have really failed to manage expectations around

this report because it demonstrated pretty thoroughly that while there was no conspiracy obviously to

conspire with a hostile foreign power the non-state intelligence agencies that were working on

its behalf the the president and everybody on down was pretty welcoming of that behavior they

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