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for the best, expect the worst.

Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today's

Thursday, February 17th, 2022. I'm John Pauldhortz, the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor,

A Greenwald Hyag. Hi, John. Senior writer Christine Rosenhykristin. Hi, John. And associate editor,

nor Rothman Hynoah. Hi, John. I'm just going to start by doing my, this occasional mornings having

a puppy waking up too early, which meant that I could watch the first half hour of morning Joe. And

I'm bringing this up only because there were two main topics on the first hour, a three main topics.

One was Ukraine, which we'll get to. The other was Donald Trump and his accounting firm and how the

accounting firm has, you know, now said that it can't stand behind the 10 years of accounting

reports that they issued and Trump saying that they're only doing this because they've been put

under insane pressure by the New York state attorney general. And so they are just trying to

protect themselves against political prosecution. And so, you know, the accounting experts on the

morning Joe panel, all of whom I think have advanced degrees in accounting, including Margae of the

New York Times, who, you know, is famously, I think, you know, one of the world's foremost accountants

informed us that this real, this could really be it because, you know, when an accounting firm

doesn't accounting and says it can't account for its accounting, no, now it's now, now he's really

in trouble. Okay, so that's the, a maize r is accounting thing. And then they go to Durham and the

John Durham investigation, which is a very complicated subject. And, you know, there are people on the

right like Andy McCarthy, who wrote a piece in national review saying he's getting a whiff of

Mueller, which is to say that Durham is uncovering shady and unethical conduct in all kinds of ways,

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