Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Tuesday, September 12th, 2023.

I am John Pothor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor,

a greenwald. Hi, John. Christine Rosen is out today, but here today, and here tomorrow,

and here all week, and here forever tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow. I, it's so late in

the day that we're actually taping this Monday night. By the way, people may have noticed

yesterday that, uh, that our podcast came out bizarrely. Our Monday podcast dated Monday,

bizarrely came out Sunday night around 10. That's because we taped it last night because

I'm a jury duty, and we, you know, needed to have that, which, and we're doing it again,

Tuesdays. We're doing it Monday night. So we are now doing tomorrow and tomorrow,

creeps and it's petty passage from day to day with Matthew Contanetti from Washington

commentary column, this American Enterprise Institute director of domestic policy studies

and author of the right 100 year war for American conservatism and author of the upcoming

maybe Wednesday. Very important piece, the left of the right by Matthew Contanetti. We

will talk about that more in due course. So the deal to release, to authorize, to make

it possible for Iran to claim $6 billion in exchange for Iran's very gracious decision

to release five or six Americans from the life denying horror of their prison system

and the Evan prison in particular has now been authorized. And I think it is meat and

proper for Abe. Let's just say we knew this was coming news about this was two months

ago. What's most striking to you about the news coming out to, as we talk on Monday evening?

Literally striking is the fact that this was made official on 9-11 anniversary. I don't

think it's, I don't think it's the necessarily ultimately the worst aspect of this. But

it's the most surprising aspect of it. I'm not terribly surprised that the administration

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