The Biggest National Security Threat We Face is President Trump: A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Few Americans in our history have had such wide-ranging and distinguished careers as Leon Panetta. A former Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence and White House Chief of Staff as well as a long-time Congressman from California, Panetta is one of the most respected, thoughtful and experienced observers of U.S. national security and foreign policy. Panetta presents his views on the threats we face and the need to take them seriously. In this extraordinary interview he discusses the Ukraine Whistleblower case and why now is the time for an impeachment investigation, Trump undermining of Americans standing in the world and the risks associated with his allergy to advice or to drawing up on the professional national resources at his disposal. Don't miss this urgent, pointed interview. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of National Security magazine.
0:52.0	I'm very pleased that on this episode,
0:56.3	we are joined by Leon Panetta,
0:59.9	former Secretary of Defense,
1:02.0	former Director of Central Intelligence,
1:04.9	longtime member of Congress,
1:07.6	who clearly has unique perspectives
1:10.3	on a lot of the issues that we are facing today.
1:14.0	Ultimately, I'd like to get into a bit of a discussion about Secretary Panetta's views
1:20.8	on some of the threats we're facing, but naturally I think we need to begin with the news,
1:29.6	the news of the day, the current concerns about the phone call that or phone calls that President Trump had
1:39.8	with the President of Ukraine, the whistleblower complaint that we will the
1:42.8	whistleblower complaint that we will I believe soon see and and I just like to begin by taking a step back, Mr. Secretary, and asking you what's your perspective?
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