Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing, which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

So for the band. I'm

Welcome to The Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

I'm John Potth, the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi, Abe.

Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

Hi, John.

And media commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And media commentary columnist Christine, Hi, Christine.

So some of our June 24 issue is up online.

We're about to discuss a Greenwald's magisterial article in the issue, the woke jihad,

but before we get to that I guess we need to talk a little bit about the Trump trial and former Trump fixer Michael

Cohen's first day in court and we're not in the courtroom and I'm not really reading the

transcripts all I can do is follow the coverage and once again we're living in two separate universes or

resistances because our dear friend Annie McCarthy and Jonathan Turley

in the New York Post, both of them found the Cohen testimony, both entirely beside the point in terms of the

actual charges that Trump is facing and procedurally highly

questionable in terms of what it is that the judge is and is not allowing people to say or not say

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