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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday February 11th,

2021 I am John Puthhorz the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald Hyde, senior writer Christine Rosen, Hyde Christine, and associate editor

Noah Rothman, Hyneoa, so we were all glued to our TV's yesterday afternoon because that's

what you can do when you're a full-time journalist for pay and even though you're on deadline watching

the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump and the case that was being made yesterday was the events

of January 6th in separate timelines what was going on outside what was going on inside what

was going on from different perspectives of cameras and then what Donald Trump was doing while

all of this was going on in these three or four separate presentations and I think we all agree

that the the one truly horrifying new detail that we saw our God was this silent footage of

the heroic capital policeman Sergeant Goodman who was guiding the rioters away from the Senate

chamber he was sort of showing telling him to go the other way right the one that initially we

were told was guy you know was part of a conspiracy to let them in came upon Mitt Romney in a hallway

and and told him this is all with no sound because of the security cameras and told him

to go the other way because the mob was coming and Romney turns turns around and runs

down the hallway the other way thus indicating that had this not happened had this encounter with

with Sergeant Goodman not happened that he would have met the mob in a matter of 45 seconds 30 seconds

something like that and can anybody doubt that they would have killed them can anyone doubt that

they those people who were screaming yelling somebody as a taser and spelt other people have these

you know flag poles that they're smashing things in with and there's Mitt Romney who voted for

imputement last year who you know who voted for and has he is like Trump's main enemy in the

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