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This is Deep State Radio.

Coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement

of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.

and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to a special edition of Deep State Radio.

I'm your host David Rothka of coming to you from somewhere outside of New York City.

Our friend and the Intrepid Reporter for the New York Times, David Singer,

is in Geneva, Switzerland following the President.

I think he's just gotten off of Air Force One literally and been at a background briefing.

Where are we right now in the run-up to the Biden Putin summit, David?

Well, we're in a really interesting part of the pre-game show.

Let me tell you what we learned, and actually the background briefing was on Air Force One.

It was done by a senior administration official who came back to tell us a little bit about what the atmosphere will look like tomorrow.

But not very much about what Biden's going to go say to Putin.

I've got some other reporting on that.

So let me just start off with the atmosphere.

They're going to meet at about one o'clock in the afternoon at, you know, a wonderful old pile of Swiss palace.

The President of the Swiss Confederacy is going to be there, you know, kind of slightly,

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