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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday October 15th, 2020.

I am John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. An executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John.

So we've had a 24 hour meltdown over revelations or purported revelations from the private emails and computer of hunter by

Biden also known as Robert Biden. Son of Joe and the there are two facets of the story one of which is the emails themselves and the material that is on this laptop that was supposedly dropped off at a Wilmington Delaware computer repair shop and never picked up again whose peculiar owner

then either handed the computer to Rudy Giuliani or had it subpoenaed by the FBI or gave it to the FBI every one of these stories he told in a in a sort of press gaggle discussion yesterday afternoon and then said he had said too much.

So we don't know what's going on we don't know where this material came from.

And then there's this whole question about whether or not it's real is it is this all disinformation and then this stuff that came out in the New York Post a paper that I have worked for and freelance for for quarter century.

The article was suppressed by Facebook and Twitter anyone who tried to attempt to post it or put it up found their access to the social media platforms limited or the stories killed.

And so we had a giant.

Tempest yesterday not just about the details of the story which are sketchy or the story that the article reports tell but about the behavior of the media and social media in relation to this portrait of the corruption of Hunter Biden and whether or not it reaches to the front runner for the presidency.

Do I have that pretty much right.

Okay, everybody's nodding can't nod on on a on a broadcast.

Okay, so can we tease this out in what direction the story or the story about the story.

Okay, well, we could start with the story because the story is that one of these emails from a Ukrainian advisor to the board of barisma.

Which is the company, the energy company in Ukraine that was paying Hunter Biden paid Hunter Biden. I don't know what is it a million five as a consultant that this advisor to the board not someone who was on the board and not an employee of barisma but an advisor to the board of barisma sent him an email that seemed to suggest that that he and Hunter had met with the then vice president Joe Biden and he was thanking Hunter for introducing them.

That's that's as far as we can tell so far the extent of the connection to Joe Biden is this email from the guy to Hunter saying, gee, thanks for introducing me to your dad.

Biden campaign has been kind of cagey about it. They were I mean the reaction to it from Biden's allies was this is nonsense and garbage, but that's not what the came out of the Biden campaign.

Biden campaign said they couldn't rule out the prospect of a potential meeting having taken place that wasn't in their notes.

I would just fishy, but nevertheless the notion that the post said this is a smoking gun email and I'd seen neither smoke nor gun.

Johnson investigation Johnson Grassley investigation reached a conclusion against their stated interests about the extent to which they could prove any action had taken place as a result of Hunter Biden's connections to barisma and they couldn't do it.

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