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Former CIA Executive Philip Mudd | PBD Podcast | Ep. 189

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4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

 In this in depth episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by Philip Mudd & Adam Sosnick. 

John Philip Mudd (born 1961 or 1962) is an American political commentator and former counterterrorism official in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

TOPICS

  • 0:00 - Start 
  • 29:30 - Philip Mudd on Hillary Clinton's involvement in Benghazi 
  • 36:58 - Why do social media companies allow conspiracy theories from Hillary Clinton, but not Trump? 
  • 43:12 - Does the U.S. have a problem at the border? 
  • 48:40 - Are Americans 'racist' against immigrants? 
  • 58:33 - Was the investigation of January 6th 'worth it'? 
  • 1:03:52 - The importance of consistency 
  • 1:25:18 - Was the U.S. behind the Nord Stream pipeline attack? 
  • 1:41:26 - The future of India 
  • 1:47:23 - Will Iran ever see regime change?



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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

PDB or PDB? PDB.

0:02.0

PDB?

0:03.0

Why PDB?

0:04.0

President's Daily Brief, when I started at the CIA, the gold standard is, do you get in front of the

0:09.2

president every day? The president gets what we call the book?

0:12.0

It's actually, depending on the president, it can be a pamphlet, it can be a binder.

0:16.4

But it's referred to as a PDB, the president's daily brief.

0:18.9

It's the short summary of stuff going around the world that you think he'd be interested in

0:23.8

through articles maybe some shorts you know a couple sizes now let me ask you this you think the

0:28.1

current president enjoys the PDB or he skips him no he's gonna read it because he was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so it's somebody who's now. He has to go through it.

0:35.3

Guys, welcome to the P. D. B. Podcast. We went right into it. Let me tell you, we're back at it again. We're trying to solve a mystery. So for me I'm like look we got to bring X C. I agency

0:46.9

X FBI agents. So finally we said look why don't we bring somebody that's been both CIA and FBI and that's our guest today. Let me properly

0:56.4

read the intro so you know who we're talking to today. He is an American

1:01.8

political commentator, former counterterrorism official in the CIA and the FBI.

1:06.2

He joined the CIA in 85 as an analyst specializing in South Asia and Middle East, and 92 he joined

1:11.8

the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, CTC, from 95 to 98.

1:15.9

He served on a National Intelligence Council

1:18.1

as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer

1:20.4

for the Near East and South Asia.

1:22.0

And all one he began policies assignment at the White House,

1:25.0

detailed from the CIA to serve as a director of Gulf Affairs on the White House National Security Council.

1:31.0

And then he's done a bunch of different things after that.

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