Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. Today is Monday, December 10, 2018. I'm John

Puthhorz, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,

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In Your Mailbox 11 times a year. With me as always, senior editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi, John.

Associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah. Hi John. And social commentary columnist Christine

Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John. So, you know, by now everybody who has listened to this podcast probably

knows more about the what happened on Friday with the Southern District of New York and Michael

Cohen sentencing memo that implicated Trump almost explicitly in two federal, you know, in

allegations that he committed two federal crimes. Then there was a Robert Mueller, that was the

Southern District of New York that Robert Mueller, of course, releases information on Paul Maniford

about how he was continuing to lie even after he agreed to cooperate and that they know that he

was in touch with officials in the Trump administration or an official and Trump administration until

February of 2018. This would have been months after he was indicted, I believe. So, we don't know what

that means. And then also finally, we got the recommendation for sentencing of Michael Flynn,

the 2014 National Security Advisor who pledged guilty a year ago to making false statements

and is said to have cooperated so well that he shouldn't get jail time, I believe. Was that right?

Yes. Right. Okay. So, although it appears that a lot of what Flynn may have cooperated about had

little to do with the Russia probe and a lot more to do with some other bizarre things that he was

involved in, like the effort to either convince the Justice Department to extradite the Turkish

cleric Gulen from his compound in Pennsylvania in order to suck up to Turkish president for life,

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