Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast for Wednesday, September 9, 2020.

I'm John Puthhorz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor

a Greenwald Hy-Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen,

Hi Christine. Hi John. An associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hi Noah. Hi John.

Commentary Magazine, the 74-year-old and monthly of intellectual analysis,

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free reads and then ask you to subscribe. So today I am going to declare hoisting on

their own pittard edition of the Commentary Podcast. I have two particular topics I

want to address. One in the rollout of his book Michael Cohen, the president's

former fixer and now you know enemy and antagonist has revealed a phone call

that he taped with CNN chief Jeff Zucker in March of 2016 where Zucker offered

debate, praise, and guidance for Trump to Cohen called Trump the boss said he

had all sorts of proposals he wanted to float by Trump to discuss what he might

do for CNN after the election. Some of the quotes here are,

I'm very conscious of not putting too much in email as you're a lawyer as you

understand Zucker is her telling Cohen who it never occurred to him might be

taping the call. And as you know as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency

like you know if I call him or I email him, he is then capable of going out at his

next rally and saying that we just talked and I can't have that if you know what

I'm saying. It's not that I don't want to talk to him every day. I've just got

to be careful because I've just got to be careful. I just don't want him

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