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The Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Here we are,

not much more than a week into Trump

two, and already my head is spinning. The necessitous two segments today, both gazing into the

crystal ball to divine what the second coming of our would-be dictator is going to look like.

Anatole Levin will try to predict a Trump foreign policy out of his untrustworthy rhetoric and early

appointments, and Alex Vitale

will meditate in what he means for crime and punishment. The first few cabinet appointments

have ranged from the scarily conventional to the outlandish. Some friends are finding comedy

in the nominations. I understand that point of view, but I and most of the people I know

and love have to live here. Most extravagant of all was the nomination of

Matt Gates as Attorney General, hated by those who know him best, his congressional colleagues,

but beloved by Trump. Mark Caputo of the Bullwark got a Trump insider, as the tabloids call them,

to share some thoughts in the nomination. Quote, none of the attorneys had what Trump wants,

and they don't talk like Gates. Everyone

else looked at the AG as if they're applying for some judicial appointment. They talked about

their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bohm. Gates was the only one who said,

yeah, I'll go over there and start cutting effing heads, edited to keep the FCC off our back.

Here with some analysis of what Trump's foreign

policy might look like is a frequent behind the news guest, Anatole Levin, Eurasia director at the

Quincy Institute. This interview is recorded on Tuesday before the outlandish Wednesday

nominations. I asked him for an update, and here's what he said. Trump's foreign policy

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