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Rational Security

"The New National Nightmare Will Soon Begin" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

FBI Director James Comey is under fire for his actions in the home stretch of the presidential election. A journalist suggests private communications between Donald Trump and a Russian bank—but is there any there there? And investigators issue a puzzling finding about the death of one of Vladimir Putin’s closest aides in a Washington, DC, hotel room.

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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

0:28.0

So in six days you guys it'll all be over. It'll be a different world. By the next time we sit down to record this podcast, it'll be done.

0:33.0

We hope.

0:34.0

That's true.

0:35.0

Or just beginning.

0:36.0

Yeah, the long national nightmare is dead.

0:40.0

Long live, the long national nightmare.

0:42.0

Yeah. Pretty much. Where will you guys be spending the

0:44.4

end of our long national nightmare? How will you ring in the the vote counts?

0:48.9

I am going to wait and see how close the polls are because there's one sort of

0:54.9

version of election night where I can like do an all-you-can-eat brisket and

1:01.0

Joe Vili toast the beginning and or end of our democracy.

1:05.0

There is another version in which I will be not suitable company,

1:11.0

probably drinking a large amount of alcohol and hiding under a table.

1:18.0

How about you, Shane?

1:19.0

I'll almost certainly be drinking a large amount of alcohol and monitoring.

1:22.2

On either set of facts though, for very honest.

1:24.3

It's Tuesday.

1:27.1

Where will you be though?

1:28.1

At home.

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