Sorry, Donald. Jen Easterly Plans To Make Elections Boring Again.

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump signed the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency into existence in 2018 with the mandate to protect America’s infrastructure from threats digital and physical. Trump also made CISA a household name when he fired the department’s head in 2020 for noting that, no, the election was not stolen. Today, we hear from Jen Easterly, the woman who now runs CISA and has the job of preventing another SolarWinds or Colonial Pipeline attack as well as preventing foreign and domestic attacks in an election environment that has become highly politicized. Her goal? Make elections boring again. BTW, do you have any burning questions on career, love or life where you’d like Kara or Nayeema’s advice? Call 1-888-KARA-PLZ and leave us a voicemail. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram. We’re @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is that hot
0:17.4	new summer band Jack Smith and the indictments. Just kidding, this is on with Cara Swisher
0:22.5	and I'm Cara Swisher.
0:23.8	And I'm Neymaraza and Jack Smith of course is the special council appointed by America
0:27.8	Scarland to investigate these documents that Donald Trump had taken from the White House
0:31.8	and Jesse Astardade, not Jack Smith, but Donald Trump announced that charges have been
0:36.5	filed.
0:37.5	Donald Trump has responded via true social that he's an innocent man, these are politically
0:40.6	motivated charges and everyone from Kevin McCarthy to Jim Jordan to at least a
0:44.9	phonic. All your favorites basically are to crime that this is a dark or sad day for
0:48.8	America.
0:49.8	Well, they have to.
0:50.8	Don't they?
0:51.8	They have to do this.
0:52.8	But Bill Barr, who was his attorney general, said this is not that. He said he shouldn't
0:56.7	have taken the documents and most people who take these documents end up in jail in
1:01.0	the way that he's done it. Lots of people by accident take them and all kinds of things
1:05.4	and they get various and sundry things. But most people who do this end up in jail.
1:09.3	So I'm in this case, I'm going with Bill Barr, although that's an unusual thing for me.
1:13.1	I think that's what you should call your last lawyer. He knows.
1:15.3	I'm going with Bill Barr.
1:16.3	Yeah, he knows what this is. He took these documents and then he tried to hide them and
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