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Stuck In The Meddle With GRU

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News, Daily News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the final two weeks before November 3rd, Trump has been criticizing his own public health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Meanwhile, Biden and Harris have been defending scientists and their role in public policy.

Federal prosecutors charged six men for some of the biggest, most notorious hacks in recent years, including the 2018 Winter Olympics hack and a 2017 hack on Ukraine. The hackers are all members of the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU, which was also linked to election interference in the 2016 election. 

And in headlines: Carlos Mesa poised to win the Bolivian election, Trump will remove Sudan from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, and a 2,000 year old cat carving in Peru.

Show Links:

"The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History" https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destroyer-cyberattack/

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, October 20th. I'm Achilles Hughes.

0:08.6

And I'm Gideon Ressingham. This is what a day we are reminding our listeners that the

0:11.8

election is like baseball's world series, but for presidents.

0:15.4

Right, but instead of two teams, there are two guys, and instead of being athletes,

0:19.1

they're both men over 70.

0:21.2

In both events, I'm compulsively eating cracker jacks the entire time.

0:24.7

I'm just trying to get the waves started. No one's paying attention to me.

0:30.0

On stage show, federal prosecutors announced charges against a group of Russian hackers.

0:38.4

We look at what those charges mean, then some headlines.

0:41.2

But first the latest.

0:42.8

He's got to lock down. Just go on and select down.

0:45.6

He'll listen to the scientists.

0:47.7

If I listen totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be

0:51.8

in a massive depression. Instead of, we're like a rocket ship. Take a look at the numbers.

0:56.7

And that's despite the fact that we have like five or six of these Democrats keeping

1:01.8

their states closed because they're trying to hurt us on November 3rd.

1:06.4

But the numbers are so good anyway, they'd be even better.

1:09.9

Wow. Like just finding out that President Trump doesn't know that rockets explode sometimes.

1:15.0

That was him at a rally on Sunday night in Nevada talking about his opponent Joe Biden

1:19.6

and trying to attack him by saying Biden would listen to scientists to dictate his response

1:23.5

to the pandemic. I hope that doesn't happen that we listen to scientists and maybe get to

1:27.5

leave our damn houses. What is Biden thinking? But anyway, that's where we're going to start

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