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As we know, there are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know there are known unknowns.

That is to say we know there are some things we do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns.

The ones we don't know, we don't know.

And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

It's Monday, November 27, 2023, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator

today, and I'm proud to report that I'm joined by not one but two, but all three of our good fellows.

That would be, of course, the distinguished historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran,

geostrategist and resident optimist, lieutenant general, HR McMaster. Gentlemen, good to see you.

We're going to do two segments today.

We're going to go to the Middle East and talk about what comes next when the truce finally ends.

We're doing this on Monday of the 27th. So this is the fourth of the four-day truce, but it's been

extended for two more days. But first, we turn our attention to U.S. politics and joining us for that conversation, a return guest on Goodfellows.

You know him as the architect of the Bush 43 presidency, political columnist for a Wall Street Journal, a self-describe political hack. We welcome back, Carl, great to see you.

Good to be back with you, or at least most of you. Most of you. So Carl, I'd like to believe that

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