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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 am your host David Rothkopf coming to you from New York City, and we are joined today in Washington, DC.

By new guest who has not been with us before, three time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Barton Gelman. How are you, Bart? Nice of you to join us.

Thank you very much. Glad to be here. I'm in New York, by the way.

Oh, you're in New York as well. Well, see, I feel very cozy. And in Washington, DC, we have with us Ed Luce of the Financial Times, as usual, How are you, Ed?

I'm good. Thank you, David. And in Alexandria, Virginia, we have Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center. Hi, Rosa. How are you?

I'm David. I'm very well. Thank you. And I'm very excited about the presidential debate tonight. I'm getting my popcorn ready now.

Are you? Are you really? Do you have a drinking game that you're planning on?

You know, every time Donald Trump speaks in the first person, you'll be dead within five minutes.

Actually, I was getting a few stiff drinks kind of lined up in shot glasses.

All right. So, you know, I wanted to have a conversation that picks up on many that we've had here because of Rosa's participation largely every week.

And turns to a story that appeared last week in the Atlantic, but is actually from the November, print edition of the Atlantic and they moved it up, which, Bart Roke, which is called the election that could break America, which talks about how the election process could go off the rails.

It is, I think, the best of the stories that I have seen on this topic, other than, of course, the pieces that Rosa herself is written.

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