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From the Archive: BDE or LDE? What’s Behind Trump’s Attempted Theft of Classified Documents?

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Original Air Date: August 16, 2022 Mar-a-Lago was searched for classified national security documents. David Rothkopf discusses the implications of this for our national security with Ed Luce of the Financial Times, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University, and Joe Cirincione. Is this just another nothingburger? Will America come apart at the seams? How much of a threat is the GOP to America's national security? Find out in this thoughtful conversation. Don't miss it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0

Hi, this is Riley Fessler, producer of the DSR Network of podcasts.

1:02.0

This week's episode of From the Archive takes you back to August, 2022, where David and guests discuss the then-recent search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents.

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1:20.0

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.

1:48.0

And from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

1:57.0

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the podcast. I'm your host David Roscoff coming to you from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:05.0

We are joined today by Ed loose of the financial times who looks like he's coming to us from Washington, D.C. Is that true Ed?

2:15.0

It's true. I'm afraid. Well, you've been gallivating about this summer. So you should visit your home periodically also joined by Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center, who's also in what vicinity of the Washington vicinity.

2:33.0

Alexandria Virginia. Beautiful of Alexandria, Virginia. And we are joined by the always lovely O. Serencione, who is one of the leading nuclear experts that we know often published author and commentator, who is maybe in Washington. Where are you, Joe?

2:55.0

I am. I'm just outside Washington and Tacoma Park, Maryland, about 180 degrees around the circle from Rosa.

3:02.0

So the you two are outside the beltway. Are you outside the beltway, Rosa? Are you still inside the belt?

3:08.0

Both Rose and I are inside the beltway. Both are inside the park of this outside the district. Yeah, it's at the district.

3:16.0

Okay. So there's a lot to talk about this week. And I want to start in a place we don't normally talk about things on this podcast. Usually it's our Thursday province.

3:27.0

And that is an aspect of domestic politics, I guess, a domestic law enforcement.

3:35.0

Because I want to talk a little bit about the national security implications of the recent visit of the Department of Justice and the FBI tomorrow.

3:46.0

And the subsequent revelation that they brought back the bunch classified materials.

3:52.0

And the subsequent assurance by the Trump team that the president had magically declassified all of those things and that that somehow mattered.

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