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Hello and welcome to a special edition of the podcast. Today we've got a one-on-one conversation

with somebody who's got particular experience and perspectives on half a dozen of the stories

that are breaking in the news right now. Peter Strock is a former US Federal Bureau of Investigation

agent who was the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Cater Intelligence Division

during the initial investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US elections.

How are you today, Peter? Hey, David. It's great to see you. I'm doing all right.

Good. Well, I can only imagine how you read the newspaper each day because every single day there's

a story that must resonate with you and initially I thought there was a story about Trump going

around saying, I'm going to fire a bunch of folks in the FBI when I get there and I'm going to

clean house and we have DeSantis and a bunch of these other candidates mouthing something similar

to this and I want to get to that. But today there's a story of Jack Smith looking into the firing

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