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🗓️ 16 August 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 31 in the National Security Law Podcasts. |
0:15.1 | I'm Bobby Cheskney. And I'm Steve Vlodick. Bobby, it's Wednesday, August 16th. |
0:24.2 | The last couple days, I, you know, I'm 37. You're a couple months older. |
0:30.2 | That was very generous of you, my friend. The last couple days have been some of the more |
0:34.6 | disheartening days of my life that I can remember. |
0:38.7 | It's definitely been a tough and an ugly week with some really astonishing failures from our president |
0:45.0 | to do something that I would have thought was kind of on the short list of things that are |
0:49.4 | super easy to do when you're a president, like denouncing Nazis unequivocally. |
0:56.7 | Yeah, I guess he missed that day in how to be a leader camp. |
1:01.7 | I don't think he went to that particular camp. |
1:04.2 | So, so we want to, we want to spend a few minutes talking about what happened in Charlottesville |
1:08.6 | and the aftermath, both because we think it's actually |
1:11.0 | a national security issue, and there's some national security-related questions, and because |
1:14.5 | it's just inescapable as the topic of the moment. We also want to actually do some, I don't |
1:20.9 | want to say happier, but less disheartening discussion of recent events. |
1:26.9 | Yeah, and we've got some more conventional national security law topics, but making |
1:30.4 | a mistake, the domestic terrorism on display in Charlottesville, that's in the larger |
1:36.0 | atmosphere of violence. |
1:36.9 | That's a national security issue. |
1:39.3 | Oh, there's no question about that. |
1:40.4 | And one that the current holder of the White House seems only interested in |
1:44.5 | exacerbating and not actually trying to remedy or solve or any of this other stuff. |
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