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Rational Security

The "Oops! Rudy Did It Again" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Federal investigators search Rudy Giuliani’s New York apartment, in an escalation of a criminal investigation into the former president’s lawyer. Covid-19 ravages India, with a record-breaking number of daily infections reported, and the Biden administration pledges assistance. And two tech companies are facing off in a dispute over surveillance, privacy and security. 

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0:00.0

All right, you guys. What are the odds that Rudy Giuliani butt dials the US attorney today and

0:04.8

incriminates himself? Pretty hot? Not zero, which is the most important thing. Yeah, or a reporter

0:12.8

for a prominent New York publication, or he'll just go on TV and do it himself. Yeah, I think the

0:20.6

real question is what are the odds that Rudy Giuliani is on Tucker Carlson's show tonight?

0:25.3

Oh, seems high. Seems the force is strong. Somewhere right now there is an attorney that is

0:32.0

Rudy Giuliani's attorney that surveyed the lay of the landscape and thought, yeah, I'll do that

0:37.2

job. That seems fun. That seems manageable.

0:47.6

Hello, and welcome to rational security. The oops Rudy did it again, edition.

0:52.6

Oh, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, you know, it was like, it was like, it was feeling like a slow

0:59.9

news day and like things were getting back to normal. And then Rudy Giuliani, it's just like, you

1:04.5

know, it's like a cocaine rush just like back into the news street, baby. Or is it like that the

1:10.7

zombie at the end of the horror movie who's just not really dead? They forgot to, they forgot to take

1:16.6

off his head. Yeah, I was actually thinking this is pretty good for Rudy. His answer on. Oh,

1:23.9

yeah, there's no very young woman in a hotel room. Yeah, that we know of. That we know of.

1:29.9

It is he is not in the parking lot, giving a press conference in the parking lot of a landscape

1:37.5

thing, a landscaping company with a porn store next door. And a crematorium? Yeah. Yeah.

1:43.4

This is a pretty good day. All that's happened. It is a search warrant executed against it.

1:49.8

Rudy, you're doing so much better at this. Oh my god. Amazing. Wow. Well, we're going to talk about

1:55.6

that. It is a it is a beautiful day in the remote jungle studios with my friends Ben Wittis,

2:00.8

Tomarkoff and Wittis and Susan Hennessy. Hi guys. It's warm and warm. It's beautiful. It's like

2:06.2

that one week before you guys two hots. Yeah. It's going to go down a little bit. I'm going to

2:12.6

come back up again. We're we're liking this weather. It's been a very nice nice spring to

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