Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday January 28th, 2019.

I am John Pajoritz, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-odd year-old monthly of

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the release of Noah Rothman, associate editor of his first book, Unjust, Hinoa. Hi John.

A Greenwald, our senior editor. Hi Abe. Hi John. And in Washington, incoming senior writer,

Christine Rose and Hykristine. Hi John. So the weekend began on Friday with, if you can say Friday

is a weekend day, with the early morning raid at Roger Stone's house, followed by Donald Trump,

agreeing to a the end of the shutdown with a three-month, three-week continuing resolution,

no money for for border security or the wall to be negotiated over the next three weeks. So Friday

was a pretty stunning day. There is yet again, as is true of every single one of these

Robert Mueller indictments, a Worshok test, a Roshamone experience that you go through when you

follow the plot line. So the anti-Trump plot line is that the noose is now really, really,

tightening his closest political consuliary for decades, though nominally not on the Trump

campaign in 2015 and 2016, indicted for witness tampering against the talk show host Randy

Kretiko, who we know was in touch with WikiLeaks and therefore in touch with

GUSA for 2.0, the the Russian intelligence front that got the hacked Hillary and DNC emails,

right? So are we actually, we don't know if they have the Hillary emails, we know they have DNC

emails. So that's just, you know, there have been 33 indictments, there is now a credible

plot line that either wittingly or unwittingly connects Donald Trump to Russian intelligence,

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