So, Good evening. It's Tuesday, April 18th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM

Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, we'll speak to Richard Grinnell, a former official in the Bush-Cheney State Department and then much more significantly,

the Trump administration's ambassador to Germany and its acting director of national intelligence.

This interview happened originally because he objected to a claim I made over the weekend

about the role I believe he played and the decision by Ecuador to withdraw its asylum for

Julian Assange in 2019.

The action which then allowed the London police and other British law enforcement

to enter the Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Assange and then bring him to the high security

Belmar's prison in the UK where he has remained for the last four years. I posted

Grinnell's response to my claim and then I spoke with him by email about coming

on to the show to give his version of events which he'll do. But we'll spend the bulk of the time talking

about America First Foreign Policy, the war in Ukraine, how the U.S. security state uses and abuses

its classification power, something he saw uphand as Director of National Intelligence.

What the foreign policy of a future Republican Party might look like

under both Trump and Ron DeSantis,

and how Ambassador Granell seized the rule of the culture war and populist politics.

Then, we'll examine the issue we intended to cover last night but ran out of time to discuss,

namely the very common and popular argument in left liberal politics,

that there's no need to align your personal actions

with your claim political values and causes,

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