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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today's Tuesday, August 9, 2022.

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

a readmob. Hi, John. Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi, John. An associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans,

Noah Rossman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. Okay, well, we got nothing to talk about today. So I guess we'll

see it tomorrow. I just want to read you a tweet that came across the trancem about 15 minutes ago.

Quote, DOJ, that is the Department of Justice, must immediately explain the reason for its raid,

and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives, or it will be viewed as a political

tactic and undermine any future credible investigation and legitimacy of January 6th investigations.

Unquote the author of this tweet, Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York State and

Lion of the Democratic Party before his personal disgrace. That's Andrew Cuomo. So I want to go back

to yesterday around 637 when the news broke that this, it's not a raid because they were informed

beforehand that they were coming. I informed the Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago, let them in,

it wasn't really a raid, but they got a search warrant, they went in, Trump released this statement

on his true social site saying they raided me, they even broke into my safe, my beautiful house,

this is a dark day, and of course there were just ecstasies on the part of the,

you know, let's get Trump and destroy him so that he can't threaten our democracy people.

And then about an hour in, the mood of those people started to shift perceptibly on Twitter and

on TV, on CNN, on MSNBC to be the, I mean they got to have a lot. I mean they wouldn't be doing

this unless they had the goods, they better have the goods, they got the goods, and that's why they

did this because who boy? And David Alaxelrod of course, former consultant to Barack Obama,

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