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Hello and welcome to DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkopf. I'm joined by Riley Fessler, Ann Minna Stein.

Riley's wearing his Cincinnati Reds hat because the Reds are doing pretty well.

And we're looking anywhere we can for positive news these days.

So well done, Riley.

Thank you.

I'm glad that one Ohio sports team can bring me some joy.

Yeah, it must have been very hard for you to watch Michigan win the NCAA basketball championship.

Yeah.

You know, I've never been an OSU fan, though, since I didn't go there.

So I wasn't too broken up about it.

Yeah, for Washington sports fans, and we'll get into the news in a minute, there is a

subtext in the women's championship because UCLA won the women's championship and rather decisive fashion beating South Carolina.

And one of the senior stars of the UCLA team was a woman named Kiki Rice.

And Kiki Rice, if that name sounds at all familiar, is the niece, a former U.S.

National Security Advisor, Susan Rice.

So see how we connect everything here? So now give me a story about national security or lack

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