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Cyberwar and Security in the Trump Era

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Clint Watts, the author of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News, about the question of cyberwar. What is it? What counts? Does the United States have a clear strategy around it? And what's some basic internet hygiene we all can practice for safe surfing? Plus, John Di Domenico returns with the weekend's tweets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.4

Hello, Trumpcast. Get ready. It's going to be one hell of a week.

0:37.0

Welcome back. The warning signs are piling up that Russia is working to sabotage our elections again.

0:42.0

You don't know who broke in to DNC. Merk my words. America will not tolerate this meddling.

0:49.7

Russia opened the playbook for the rest of the world to copy. This is super cheap.

0:53.8

I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She's saying Russia, Russia, Russia. But I don't.

1:02.8

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

1:05.2

The show about the man who thinks California wants wildfires. Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Weisberg.

1:14.3

That's right. The president has been tweeting about this for the past couple of days.

1:18.9

He says Governor Jerry Brown and environmentalists are to blame for diverting water into the Pacific Ocean.

1:26.5

Instead of using it to fight the fires that have already devastated more than 5 million acres so far this year.

1:35.6

As with so many of Trump's comments, it's too simple to call this a lie.

1:39.3

Although it will almost certainly count as around number 4,300 according to the Washington post tabulation

1:46.4

or around number 2000 according to the stricter standard of the Toronto Star's Daniel Dale.

1:53.4

The post and the star agree that the rate of Trump's lies has been accelerating lately,

1:58.2

which may be why they're both a little backlog with their lists.

2:01.9

But as I say, this isn't just a lie. It's one of those Trump concepts that lives at a

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