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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday, May 11th, 2020. I am John

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

political probity, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to

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with me as always associated editor and orosman. Hi Noah. Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. And senior editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi John. Guys so the depending on where you are and and how you are living the story of the

weekend and possibly of the of the week and maybe going forward a decisive moment in the election

in terms of giving putting some meat on the bones of the Trump accusations against the democratic

party of the Obama administration and implicitly Joe Biden the decision on Thursday to drop

all charges against Michael Flynn the former national security advisor and the release of many

documents by the office of the director of national intelligence showing what really does appear

to be bad faith collusion and and an effort of prosecutorial zeal to get Michael Flynn even though

the FBI agents who had originally interviewed Flynn about his the conduct that eventually got him

fired by the Trump administration after three weeks and then indicted by the independent counsel

that the FBI had determined that he had done nothing wrong in January of 2017 and that this was not

a conclusion that the senior directors of the FBI and very possibly Barack Obama himself were happy

to hear and so they wished to pursue it further and discussed essentially discussed whether or not

he could be sort of entrapped and interestingly enough almost comically sort of like one of those

cop shows you know a cop show where there's a you know a private detective in town and you know

in like LA or New York and he only ends up dealing with one cop like anytime he goes anywhere to

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