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#812 - Mike Baker - Emergency Episode: Former CIA Agent On Trump Assassination Attempt

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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An emergency episode in the wake of this past weekend. No ads, no edits — just a raw, unfiltered conversation with former Central Intelligence Agency officer and security expert Mike Baker. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to the show, another emergency episode today in the wake of the events this past weekend with Trump's assassination attempt, this time with Mike Baker, who is a former CIA operative, and he has a great insight into domestic politics,

0:16.0

international relations, how this will be changing the landscape of politics

0:20.5

over the next few months up until the November election.

0:23.0

What this means for the Trump campaign, the Biden campaign, how other countries are going to interpret this.

0:27.0

Intelligence failures from a sort of more agency systematic perspective.

0:32.0

Fullworks.

0:34.0

And again, same as yesterday's episode.

0:36.0

No ads, no interruptions, no nothing.

0:38.0

I just wanted to get some information from people who have expertise out there.

0:41.0

So I hope that you take something away from this one.

0:45.8

Please welcome Mike Baker.

0:48.8

Three, two, one.

0:52.0

Mike Baker, welcome in the show.

0:53.0

Thanks very much, ma'am. Appreciate you.

0:55.0

Emergency episodes needed to have a chat with you.

0:58.0

How big of an intelligence failure was this?

1:01.0

Well, it's, you have to think of it more as a logistical failure as

1:05.5

opposed to an intelligence failure. This was a breakdown in what should be

1:09.8

very standard security protocols and look the Secret Service does that very well,

1:16.5

but clearly, right?

1:18.5

And you always have to, yeah, I'd caveat this with one thing.

1:21.3

You have to always wait for an investigation to finish, right?

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