Gen. Michael Hayden: Hillary Clinton second choice on national security

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🗓️ 28 March 2016

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Former CIA Director Michael Hayden sits down with Glenn Thrush to discuss his career at the NSA and CIA, who he trusts in the 2016 race on national security and his criticisms of certain journalists he's encountered over the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. It's Glenn Thrush with Politico's Off Message podcast.
0:19.4	A really rotten week. A really rotten week.
0:28.5	A really rotten week for the world, for Brussels, for our political Europe brothers and sisters who were 500 feet away from one of the suicide bombers that killed so many people
0:36.1	this week.
0:52.3	It really underscores the seriousness of the consequences of this falls presidential election and the emerging issue of terrorism and how we respond to those threats in the election. I can tell you, first of all, I want to give a huge, huge, huge shout out to the Politico
0:58.2	Europe team who did just an incredible job.
1:02.8	You know, a bunch of folks literally ran towards the sound of the explosions and into the
1:09.5	smoke, into the subways.
1:12.8	I mean, that's real reporting.
1:19.1	You know, we talk a lot about punditry and talking heads and really the worst elements of our profession, but I think the Politico Europe folks really showed their medal and really came
1:24.3	back with some amazing first person accounts. Go online and take a look at
1:28.4	some of the stuff that they did. I'm just, I'm really, as somebody who covered 9-11 in the aftermath,
1:34.4	it's really very hard on folks and I just couldn't be more proud to be associated with them.
1:41.8	That said, a lot of the issues that Europe is dealing with the Syrian
1:48.2	Civil War, and it has metastasized, and a lot of these fighters, veterans have leached back over
1:58.4	the border back into Europe. That's not an issue we as a country will face
2:02.0	simply because we're not as proximal to the conflict. But these are the core issues that are
2:09.4	animating the foreign policy debate, particularly on the Republican side in 2016, and it's just
2:14.0	going to continue to get more intense. The conventional wisdom on this is that Donald Trump benefits most from sort of the tough talk on terror.
2:21.2	But this is a guy who at the moment hasn't, I guess he let leak a couple of potential names of advisors,
2:27.4	but he does not have a serious platform on anti-terror stuff,
2:31.3	just as he doesn't really have a serious platform on anything.
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