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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday, June 2, 2022.

I'm John Poppore. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a green walled high a hi John associate editor, no, Rossman, hi Noah. Hi John.

Christine Rosen is on leave joining us today Washington commentary columnist A E I fellow

founding editor of the Washington Freebeacon and author of the brilliantly reviewed new history

of American conservatism the right Matthew Kunt netty high mat. Hey John.

So we are fascinating news crossing the wire that OPEC has agreed to a

pretty substantial increase in the amount of oil that it is going to pump about a 50% increase.

And this this comes why this is interesting aside from the fact that will obviously

really pressure on oil prices in the United States, which is good news for everybody here and

good news for suffering Democrats and the suffering by the administration.

But it comes as we are hearing talk of a trip by President Biden to the Middle East,

which was first floated as a he that he was going to Israel. Then they kind of dropped that he

was maybe going to go to Saudi Arabia. Also, and I smell a rat. I don't smell a rat because it's fine,

but that Biden got no reason to go to Israel right now. There's there's there's nothing going on

there except the kind of political stalemate standoff situation. And that basically this is all

about behind the scenes negotiations with the Saudis. And why would be negotiating behind the scenes

with the Saudis? We'd be negotiating behind this in scenes with the Saudis because Muhammad bin

Salman who runs the kingdom has been in bad odor since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the

anti house of Saud journalist and activist who wrote a few things for the Washington Post and

was called some kind of a contributing correspondent and then was murdered in Turkey at the

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