The issue is trust: Bruce Mehlman, plus Kiersten Todt on cybersecurity

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Chuck talks with Bruce Mehlman about his latest analysis on trends in populism and GOP priorities. Plus, Kiersten Todt, managing director at the Cyber Readiness Institute, discusses a hack that could have poisoned municipal water in Florida.

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0:00.0	Hello there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:09.8	It is a Wednesday in 2021.
0:12.3	So you know what that means.
0:13.3	There's some big news in Washington today.
0:15.4	It's the House of the Beach MacNanagers.
0:17.5	Officially kicking off their case against former President Trump, 16 hours of arguments
0:23.2	in total over a day.
0:25.0	They claim they won't use all 16 hours.
0:27.0	On Tuesday we heard the opening salvos from both sides, including an emotional speech.
0:32.1	Democratic Congressmen Jamie Raskin and, frankly, a rambling introduction from the defense
0:36.4	team and the lead lawyer there who's tasked her with one voice was suspiciously absent.
0:41.3	Donald Trump's plenty of reporters heard that the former president was unhappy with his
0:45.8	team appearance and delivery.
0:47.8	Of course we did not hear from Trump because of course he's been muted on social media.
0:53.2	You, to certain way that choice to kick the former president off of Twitter might turn
0:56.4	out to have been the thing that saved him from conviction.
0:59.0	It's a fun little riddle to think about joining me now as Bruce Melmond.
1:03.2	He is a longtime Republican advisor and every quarter he puts out slide decks that try
1:07.5	to identify future trends.
1:09.4	He really doesn't have a very apolitical fashion even though I introduced him as a Republican
1:13.4	advisor.
1:14.4	Bruce is a founding partner at Melmond, Cascade Netty, Rosen and Thomas and in his latest
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