The "Huddled Masses" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration’s executive order on immigration spurs chaos and protests. Speaking of protest, does the mass signing of a State Department dissent cable signal a new rise of bureaucratic resistance to Trump? And what to make of the re-structuring of the National Security Council? Plus, Rational Security's biggest fan Phil Walter joins the podcast this week.

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0:24.0	I'm so who has an object lesson today? I've got one.
0:27.0	You have one?
0:28.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:29.0	Wait, isn't Phil our object?
0:30.0	Oh, Phil!
0:31.0	Hey, Phil is our object.
0:33.0	Welcome, Phil!
0:34.0	How do you feel that being objectified?
0:36.0	I'm quite used to it actually.
0:38.0	Thank you for coming and being objectified today at the podcast.
0:43.0	Thank you for inviting us.
0:44.0	I'm always wanted to be objectified on behalf of rational security.
0:47.0	Well, we're very glad you're here.
0:48.3	Nothing like objectification for a good cause.
0:50.8	It's like the best part of our Twitter stream has come to life right here in the jungle
0:54.7	studio. But I got to tell you a really cool thing that happened the other day. I was taking the metro home the other night with Courtney Dunnekin who does development work for the section of
1:09.3	Brookings and a young man walks up to me and says, you're Ben Wittis, aren't you?
1:16.0	And I said, yeah.
1:17.6	And he said, I love rational security.
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