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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 another episode of Deep State Radio. I'm your host David Rothkopf, coming to you from New York City.

Also in New York General vicinity, we have our regular co-host here on Thursdays, Ryan Goodman, Professor at NYU Law School, co-editor of just security. How are you, Ryan?

Pretty well, David, thanks.

And other regular at this time of the week who is regularly keeping us up to date with the pandemic that will never end. Dr. Kavita Patel, practicing physician, former senior official in the Obama White House. How are you, Kavita?

I good. Thanks, David.

And we are joined, and we are glad to be joined today by Clint Watts, who is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, former FBI agent, former military officer. How are you, Clint?

I am great. It's approaching at least the end of the Zoom day.

Yeah, the Zoom day. The Zoom day never ends for some of us, but I thought we would look at some of the things that we see as looming threats.

We are in the home stretch to the election. The stretch where last election cycle, we had a lot of developments from enhanced Russian interference to October surprises of variety of sorts.

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