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Rational Security

The "Moron" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

President Trump tells Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that he’s wasting his time negotiating with North Korea. A gunman opens fire in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in at least half a century. And an American is being held in Syria as an enemy combatant.

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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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0:27.0

So the Secretary of State called the President of Moron. Yes.

0:28.0

Has anyone in this room not called the President of the moron?

0:32.0

Was anyone surprised by this revelation?

0:34.0

No, I just think there's a, like, I think that's a moment in American history.

0:38.6

It's probably a first.

0:39.8

Oh, come on, you don't think that most secretaries of state have had a moment when they felt that their

0:45.0

boss was a moron?

0:46.0

I don't know, but most secretaries of state then don't go have their people talk about that moment to the press.

0:53.4

Right?

0:55.2

Where they, you know, there's just that moment where NBC publishes

0:59.4

that the Secretary of State thinks that the President is a moron and said it. And I just think that we should tell, take a moment to appreciate that that's a, we're now the kind of country where the Secretary of State calls the

1:15.8

president a moron and then leaks that he did it to to NBC. I think what's

1:20.9

actually more notable here is that he's probably the last person in Washington to call the president a moron.

1:27.0

Hello and welcome to Rational Security the moron edition I'm Shane Harris moronic reporter

1:36.8

Sometimes I feel like a moron sometimes you don't I like them. I like I like I like

1:42.1

I like I like I know should just use the word moronic

1:45.4

profligently throughout the episode I need to do like a quick etymology of the word

1:50.6

moron okay I'm sort of a thing that sort of restrained

1:53.7

that he called him a moron.

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