Welcome back to Potts Avalole. This is Tommy. Thank you guys for tuning in.

My guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall. Liz has had a bunch of very important

jobs in government. Most recently she was the deputy secretary at the Department of

Energy. She was a special assistant to the president and coordinator for defense policy

and countering weapons of mass destruction. She's also a Europe expert. That's actually

where we started. We talked about Europe after Brexit and what's next for the EU. Then

we talked about her job overseeing our nuclear arsenal and threats and concerns she might

have about nuclear programs and places like Pakistan. We talked about the work she did

to try to secure our utility grid from cyber threats. The science going on at our national

labs and the way to get more women and national security jobs. She is brilliant. I think

you will really appreciate her perspective. It's such a wide range of issues that she's

worked on. It was almost hard to know where the hell to begin with the questions, but it

was a great conversation and it was great this year. I am thrilled today to have my guest

in studio in Los Angeles, her hometown. Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall. Liz, thank you

for being here. It's great to be with you TV. It's great to see you. So the best part

about this show for me is that it's like a college reunion with all these brilliant

people I worked with. What's funny is you and I work together when you were on the

NSE and then you had this whole other set of fascinating jobs after I left. But it

almost made it hard to know where to even begin because there's so much fun stuff we

could cover and just scare the shit out of people. It'll be great. Let's also talk about

how much good we can do. I was thinking we might start with Europe because so much is

going on. A few months ago, it felt like the conversation was about Brexit, the rise

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