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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Thursday December 9th 2021.

I am John Puff, where it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, a brainwalled hi-a.

Hi John. Associate editor, Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi John. And senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine.

Hi John. I just want to read you something that Donald Trump said yesterday to hue hue it

on hue hue it's show. There have been little pieces of new snippets that came out of hue show.

Hue begging him not to endorse Eric rightons and Missouri for one thing.

And Trump saying that his base would be very, very angry if he didn't run in 2024.

But he said a pretty astonishing thing that if we are to take him at his word may represent the

single largest breach of national security by any human being ever in history.

But let me just read to you what what he what he said. Hue asked him, you know, Mr. President,

I wanted to ask especially about the hypersonics the China launch. Did you know they were coming?

This is a game changing weapon that they have launched on President Biden's watch.

And Trump said I agree. Hue said, did you know they're about to do that? Trump said, I knew that I started it.

I don't know what that means. So Russia started it after they got our information.

You know, somebody gave them during the Obama administration everything we had on hypersonics.

And Russia did it. And what I did is a catch up program. And we've caught up largely caught up.

But what happened is Russia got it. And then China got it perhaps from Russia.

I doubt they did it themselves. They got it perhaps from Russia. Maybe from some bad guy in the

United States. But you know what happened? They Russia got the how to the knowledge from the United

States. They did it. And Obama didn't do it. I caught up with it. How China got the information?

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