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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, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm your host David Rothkoff and every so often as you know what we do is we take a break from our usual

panel discussions about all the mayhem in the world and talk about a book we think

you should read and boy do we have one that is just perfect for everybody out there

came at about six weeks ago the author is Carlos Lazzada he's an opinion columnist at the New York Times, and co-host of the matter of opinion

podcast, he is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Washington book, How to read politics and politicians how you doing Carlos

Great. Thanks for having me on the show. Well, it's great to have you here Carlos the. The book that you've written, the Washington book

How to Read Politics and Politicians,

is just perfect for our audience

who tunes into the podcast here at the DSR Network

to get an inside perspective on Washington and I think

over the course of your time as a book reviewer at the Washington Post and as a as a columnist at the New York Times you've sort of become the master reader of

Washington's internal monologue and I think that's what makes this book so interesting is that you don't sort of take these books at face value, but you read between the lines of each of them.

And I'm just, I'm wondering to what degree that's your intent to begin with.

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