Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday July 12th, 2023.

I am John Budhords, the editor of commentary magazine with me is always executive editor,

a greenwald hi Abe.

John Washington commentary column, this Matthew Kahnetti.

Hi Matt.

Hi John joining us again today commentary contributing editor and host of the re education

podcast Eli Lake.

Hi Eli.

Hey, thanks for having me again.

You bet.

Eli as somebody who is very interested in the misbehavior of public officials and

those in proximity to public officials, we must bring up to you the case of 100 Biden.

Of course, having agreed to plead guilty to to misdemeanor counts on a Wednesday morning

and then attends a state dinner on Wednesday night with the attorney general of the United

States, whose department it was that negotiated the plea deal in which he pled guilty and

yet they were both yucket it up there among the crystal in in the White House.

The under Biden story is taking interesting turn some of them sociological some of them

legal.

The legal term that it appears to have taken is that the US attorney who was tasked with

investigating the under Biden story David Weiss has now responded to the idea that he

is part of a sweetheart deal and that a whistleblower had revealed the nature of the sweetheart

deal implicit negotiation.

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