The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Tuesday, August 9, 2016 from Slate It's The GIST I'm Mike Pesca,

recording from a remote location.

No spiel today, but I do note that 50 top former or current GOP security officials

have joined together to declare that Donald Trump lacks the character values and experience to be president.

Now the problem is that the kind of people who would listen to the words of 50 top GOP security officials

are probably not Trump voters anyway.

And when you or I hear the names, he said flattering you because you obviously know who Michael Hayden and Robert Zolik and Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff are,

you're like, whoa, those are some heavy hitters.

But do you think a Trump supporter is like, wow, Chertoff said that?

I was following him since he was a federal appeals judge.

And would it help you to know that he once studied to be a rabbi?

Well, it would.

I could put that in context.

No, the 50 top officials who can have any impact on the minds of the people who may think to follow Trump

are not four stars or three stars or heads of homeland security.

They're people like this.

Ha, I'm Duane Chapman.

You might know me better as Doug the Bounty Hunter.

And I'm Paul Dene and I'm Lee DeAnne Venzano.

I used to be married to one of the mob wives.

Please do not join the inferences on my profession.

...