On Tuesday, April 23rd at 6 p.m. the DSR Network and the New Republic will be co-hosting an evening featuring a conversation with Secretary of Transportation, Pete Budajudge.

The event will take place at the National Press Club.

If you are a member and live or will be in the D.C. area and would like to attend, please email Riley Fessler at R.M.

Fessler at TRG Media.com, that's R M-F-E-S-S-L-E-R at TRG media dot com. We have a few seats still available and would love to see you there. This is above average intelligence, a production of the DSR network.

Each week, hosts Mark Polymeropolis and David Rothkof are joined by leading experts from the intelligence

community for expert analysis on the biggest security challenges around the world. This is Above Average Intelligence Show.

Today I am very happy to welcome as my guest,

Kylie Atwood, a national security correspondent for CNN based in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining CNN, she was the CBS New State Department reporter.

Kiley has reported from dozens of countries around the world, including Russia, Afghanistan,

and China, Mexico.

Kiley graduated from Middlebury College with the major in international studies and I'm happy to say she's from Boston so she's a Red Sox fan.

I'm highly welcome.

Thank you for having me. This will be a lot of fun.

Absolutely. So I just kind of, what we do, this is super casual,

so you'll see for the many thousands of listeners here,

actually probably a smaller audience

than the millions who see you on CNN. But just to note...

I don't know.

You're pretty popular, Mark.

No, no, no.

So you and I first met actually when you're recovering Havana Syndrome,

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