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

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm your host David Rothkoff coming to you as usual from Washington DC.

We are here today as we do always in the middle of the week to talk about foreign policy national security and of course here with us is the eternal Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law School. How are you doing Rosa?

Hi David face is eternal and for the first time ever in contrast to that we have with us Alex were to is the national security.

Reporter for Politico how are you doing out doing fine. Thanks for having me.

I think this is a way of saying we've got a new person and a really old person and I don't like it David.

Well first of all if there's a really old person here it's me it's not you that's true good point and secondly eternal doesn't really mean that it just means that you are you are essential to what we are who we are.

Which is not to say you're not important Alex we're really glad that you could join.

It sounds like she's forever young that's how I'm taking it.

Thank you Alex you can come back anytime you want.

Okay good I'm glad we're off to good start here. There's a lot to talk about in the world of foreign policy and national security.

Let me start with the fact that we had a kind of unusual.

Cisagy of foreign policy last week when the president was off at the G20 meeting.

Could you please spell that.

Cisagy.

They spell for our listeners.

ZYGY.

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