Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Friday, August 2, 2024.

I'm John Putth, The Editor of Commentary with me as always executive editor

every remote hi a jayed

senior editor Seth mandel hi seft

right john and it is old home week because back again, after, you know, basically being the inspiration for

this podcast, the producer of this podcast, a daily presence on this podcast for four years back with us.

National Reviews, Noah Rothman, I know.

Hi, John.

So excited to have you, Noah and I texting this morning and then I thought, my goodness, we need to have

Noah on to talk about everything that is happening and so we're going to just jump right in and I'm

going to ask you guys very plainly 1130 last night joint force Andrews base the hostages the prisoners

prisoner swap American hostages come off the plane and

this is being treated and greeted as a gigantic diplomatic victory for the

Biden administration as as expressed by

Kamala Harris on the runway very happy happy scenes of Evan Gerskovich meeting his family, all of that, and obviously a very complicated negotiation involving several nations and 17 people.

And so I don't, there is a, there seems to be a desire on the part of people

...