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Rational Security

The "Lessons Learned" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Four prosecutors step down from the Roger Stone case after the Justice Department contradicts their sentencing recommendation. The White House purges officials who testified in Trump’s impeachment trial. And the Justice Department is taking a look at Rudy Giuliani’s investigation into the Bidens.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

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0:29.0

So let's take stock. What lessons do we think Susan Collins has learned after she said she thinks the president has learned lessons? I think she's definitely learned that all padcasts begin with the word so.

0:34.8

Yes, well everyone knows that.

0:36.8

I just, you know, beautiful Susan Collins's faith in the human spirit and the goodness of all people and all presidents and their ability

0:48.3

to grow and learn.

0:50.8

And definitely not a craven political actor who is full of shit, but no like a really good faith expression of just hope she said it was an aspiration. She was saying she hoped he learned.

1:06.5

Have we ever gone that little time before getting the explicit?

1:10.3

Oh for sure. For sure. Just checking. Hope Springs Eternal though right?

1:14.0

Yes it's so optimistic of you Susan Collins. I think we've all learned yet another

1:20.2

lesson about who you are. Her optimism is unbound.

1:24.0

I will say she's on Twitter.

1:26.0

She's been talking about how nearly 40% of main deer ticks

1:31.0

tested positive for Lyme disease in 2019.

1:33.4

So this is a woman who has her finger on the pulse

1:36.4

of the real issues facing America today.

1:38.4

Hey, tick-born illnesses are a big problem in Maine.

1:41.9

I hope those ticks learn a lesson. Maybe she's

1:43.8

sub-tweeting Trump. Tic-tic-tic-tic.

1:48.0

Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Lessons Learned Edition.

1:56.0

I'm Shane Harris. I have learned nothing in three years.

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