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Welcome, everybody. Welcome everybody to this edition of the Untold Story podcast.

I'm Martha McCallum.

Very busy week going on here and in the world.

And I'm very happy to be joined today by Robert O'Brien, who you all know, of course. He needs no introduction, but for those of you who might need a little background, he's the former

national security advisor in the Trump administration, former special presidential envoy

for hostage affairs, and he previously served as co-chairman of the U.S. Department of State,

public and private partnership for justice reform in Afghanistan under both secretaries of state Rice and Clinton.

He has extensive foreign policy experience over several administrations and was very instrumental as the national security advisor in the Trump administration.

So, Robert, thank you so much.

It's great to have you with us.

Oh, it's always for you with you, Martha.

Thank you.

I think I just want to start because I always like to tell a little bit of untold story.

You know, tell everyone who was used to seeing you all the time in the Trump administration,

what you're up to now, what you're focusing on, what you're working on in terms of

having some influence on world affairs.

So I went back to practicing law part-time at my former law firm, but most of my time, Martha,

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