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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 Rothkopf and I am in, believe it or not, Sicily. Italy, right now, was supposed to be home a couple days ago.

Flight's got canceled. There was a fire at the airport. There was a strike at the airport. It's 105 degrees here. It's been quite an experience.

Now, we don't let that come between you and great programming conversations you need to hear.

And today we've got with us a friend, Miles Taylor, known to all as anonymous, who has a new book called Blowback, which looks at his time in the Trump administration, his observations about the Trump administration,

the personal consequences of speaking out and making those observations about the Trump administration.

And I think most importantly, a warning about where we might be if we end up with either another Trump administration or anything like it.

It's an important book. It's extremely well written. You know, Miles, not just from our show, but also from MSNBC and other spots. And we're glad to have you here, Miles. How are you doing?

David, it's great to be with you and I'll apologize in advance if you hear any noise from here on the streets of New York City. Like you, I had a travel staff who emits this book to her.

So here you find me on the streets of New York. And hopefully that color will add to our conversation, but great to be with you as always.

You know, as an experienced book author, Miles, you know, you could have gone to Simon and Schuster and asked them to give you a hotel room.

They shouldn't make you sleep in the street.

Yeah, that's right. Well, they had a wonderful podcast studio lined up for me. And then as New York construction happens, it was blocked and inaccessible until noon.

Well, look, we're glad we got you. We're glad we tracked you down. We've been meaning to do this for a long time. I read the book in Galley form.

And I thought it was great. But what I couldn't anticipate was that, you know, this week, the big topic that everybody's talking about is what happens if Trump gets elected again.

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