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This is Deep State Radio, coming to direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.

From other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of DSR. I am your host David Rothkopf here in what is pretty sunny Washington, D.C.

And I am joined by our old and reliable friends, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center. How are you doing, Rosa?

Good, David. How are you?

Good and David Sanger of the New York Times. How are you doing, David?

Good, David.

You look like you're in the Charles Hotel. That's just because I know fake bookshelves when I see them.

I am indeed in the Charles Hotel in Milwaukee.

In the lobby. I can see that.

Books are real. I think the books are kind of fake though. Try them.

The books are kind of fake.

They're slabs of wood.

For something that is in the environment of some of the country's largest libraries.

They could bring for a few books, maybe a couple of copies of David's and Rosa's.

Maybe even mine.

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