Ep. 111 - John Brennan

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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John Brennan, the outgoing CIA Director, talks with David Axelrod about the consequences that could arise from devaluing the intelligence community, the Russian hack into the Democratic National Committee’s computers, the many geopolitical challenges in the Middle East, and much more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:15.9	One of the educations you receive very quickly as a new aid in the White House is just how
0:26.0	fraught the world is in terms of potential threats and challenges.
0:31.8	And it was a comfort to me that one of my colleagues was John Brennan, who was the Homeland
0:37.4	Security Advisor to the President.
0:40.0	And now the CIA Director.
0:42.4	Director Brennan came by the Institute of Politics the other day, the night before actually
0:47.5	met with Donald Trump and the leaders of the intelligence community to discuss the Russian
0:52.6	hacking story.
0:54.6	And we sat down to talk about his life, his career, and some of the very interesting
1:01.1	current events.
1:11.0	John Brennan, Director of the CIA.
1:13.5	Welcome.
1:14.5	Thank you, first of all, for coming to the Institute of Politics.
1:18.2	And thanks for your friendship over the years we were colleagues in the White House.
1:22.5	But I didn't know then what I know now because of the research that I was given before this
1:31.2	conversation that we had this thing in common, which is we're both the sons of immigrant
1:37.6	parents.
1:38.6	Tell me about your dad.
1:40.1	He was from Ireland.
1:42.0	Yes.
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