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

Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio.

I am David Rothkoff. I am your host. I'm down here deep in the third sub-basement

of the Ministry of Snark. In your nation's capital, Washington, D.C., well it may not be your

nation's capital, but it's some nation's capital, and we are in it.

And with me here, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University, Susan Hennessy of Brookings and Law Fair and CNN and other places and Ed Luce of the Financial Times.

And we are here to pick up a discussion we had the other day about Vladimir Putin's victory, wherein he has helped

enable the transformation of the United States, perhaps, into a kind of oligarchic

system.

Now by the way, Wall Street has been collaborating on this approach for a long, long time,

and others who are acting in sort of their self-interest and promoting inequality

have been acting on this for a long, long time.

But one of the things that strikes me and just reading the news of the past, you know,

week or so, is that you have Mueller going after Trump as a kind of a crime family and in the last episode

Ed Luce made reference to that. A crime family that's being manipulated by another crime family because the Russian government

...