NTK: Breaking News: A Senior Congressional Dem With a Clear Plan to Win at Home and Abroad

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Representative Adam Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, joins host David Rothkopf to discuss recent important developments in the Middle East, the president's "ridiculous" Quantico speech to military leaders, the future of US national security, and how to get Americans to come together to stop the push toward authoritarianism in the U.S. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:17.0	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third
0:24.3	sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations
0:31.0	across America and around the world.
0:34.7	Hello and welcome to DSR's Need to Know.
0:38.4	I'm David Rothkoff, your host, and this week is every week.
0:41.4	We're going to have an in-depth conversation with a newsmaker we think you need to hear from.
0:47.1	This week we're especially happy to have with us, Representative Adam Smith.
0:52.8	Adam is a U.S. representative for Washington's ninth congressional
0:57.7	district. He is a Democrat and the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee.
1:07.1	How are you today? I'm doing great, David. Thanks.
1:12.1	It's good to see you.
1:20.9	I'd like to start with what is, you know, the leading story and the news right now,
1:33.7	and that is apparent breakthrough to get to a ceasefire in Gaza, which will result in the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for some Palestinian prisoners and Israel pulling back
1:43.0	to a line where they would still have direct control of about half of Gaza
1:49.1	and then to begin a second phase of negotiations.
1:55.2	What's your feeling about this and where it may lead?
1:59.2	Well, number one, it's an incredibly positive step. I mean,
2:03.2	simply to stop the fighting, given the, the humanitarian catastrophe that is in Gaza right now. And then also
2:11.2	that that conflicts undermining of all manner, different other diplomatic things going on in
2:17.4	the region with Syria and Lebanon, Iran.
2:20.8	I think it's a positive step.
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