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President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a super pack.

They deploy millions of dollars to weaponise our own political opposition research and false narratives.

When we are consumed by parties and rancour, we cannot combat these external forces as they

seek to divide us against each other, degrade our institutions and destroy the faith of the

American people in our democracy.

Addressing the United States Congress in an impeachment inquiry, no less, that was one of the

most powerful British people of the 21st century, Fiona Hill, someone you probably haven't

heard of, partly because she isn't just British. She didn't find her power or her career or

her fame, such as it is is in Britain, but in America.

Fiona Hill is a county Durham girl who, through grit, tenacity and sheer intelligence,

overcame a dirt poor background, the daughter of a minor, to advise not just one, not just two,

but three presidents of the United States on foreign policy, and in particular

Russia, via America's National Security Council. She's a long history of speaking truth to power,

to those who don't want to hear it. She went on to attract the eye of, of course, President Trump,

who said that she'd never have got anywhere without him or that accent. The truth is, as you're about to hear, the reason she was in America in the first place is because of that accent.

She's just published a memoir. There's nothing for you here.

At this time of international chaos of an America which feels inside and out on the edge,

there could be no better time to talk to this woman with a unique perch

on American power, British decline, and how in the end all roads lead back to Vladimir Putin.

How in the mud of Ukraine, the sands of Gaza and Israel, the marble of Washington's hallowed

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