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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: Stepping Up Our Game

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Michael speaks with former Congressman and CIA officer Will Hurd about his new book, "American Reboot: An Idealist’s Guide to Getting Big Things Done." The pair discuss restoring the Republican Party, China's long game and how the U.S can compete globally by improving its leadership and preparing for rapid technological advances.

Check out Will's book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Reboot/Will-Hurd/9781982160708

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Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners. Michael Steel here with another quick take from the

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Michael Steel Podcast. Check out what's going on right now.

0:46.4

Welcome back everybody. We are drilling down with my man. We're fresh off of our little

0:54.0

John Titu, South of Southwest, in his backyard in the great state of Texas in Austin, where

1:01.0

actually by happenstance, I ran into Will. I was hanging out with a mutual buddy and he

1:06.5

was going over to meet that mutual buddy, by the way, was Congressman Peter Mayer. We

1:14.7

were having some fun. Dude, in this book, you talk about the things that we need to do

1:22.8

and you lay out, again, we've touched on X-Mox, the spark kind of, you know, get off the

1:29.1

X and then move accordingly, the kind of leadership that's required in order to do the things

1:36.7

that need to be done. Let's get into some of the big things you think the country should

1:42.1

be looking at right now. You're in the cyberspace. Clearly, there are some enormous challenges

1:48.3

there for this country. We do. We take a lot for granted in the cyberspace. I mean, just

1:53.8

the easy baseline, one of our stuff is, okay, change your past code from my love mom to

1:58.6

something a little bit more complicated. All right. So there's that level, but then there's

2:03.8

bigger stuff as we've seen now narratives evolving in the war in Ukraine around what Russia

2:11.1

will or will not do. How the various NATO alliance allied countries will respond in a

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