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This is Deep State Radio.

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 another episode of Deep State Radio.

This is your host David Rothkoff and I am here at an undisclosed location

somewhere on the east coast of the United States. Not too far from Washington, D.C. where we've got Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law School, and we've got Ed Loose of the Financial

Times.

And at another undisclosed location, we have a new guest for us, Rula Jabreal, who is a foreign policy analyst, a commentator, also is a professor,

at the University of Miami.

And Rula, I'd like to start with you, first of all, to welcome you to Deep State Radio.

But, you know, you as someone who comes from the Middle East and is an expert in the Middle East,

I want to start in the natural first place, which is the

Senate of the United States. Because I've been watching the hearings of Kavanaugh to become a Supreme Court justice and it reminds me of nothing quite

so much as proceedings you might see in the Middle East.

It is bizarre and unhinged and I'm wondering if you share this

perspective. I absolutely share this perspective. I've seen it many times in the Middle East and and honestly it's I remember after 9-11 and after the

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