The "Pettifogging" Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins in earnest, with a marathon session hammering out the rules and procedures. U.N. investigators say there is credible evidence that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone. And you may have heard—Ben and Susan have published a book! We’ll talk about “Unmaking the Presidency.”

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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0:32.0	I want us to all commit in this session. We're all very tired. People up late last night that there will be absolutely no petty fogging on this episode of the podcast.
0:33.0	Petty fogging.
0:34.8	We should commit ourselves to not pressing on insignificant or petty details
0:40.6	or being dishonest or unethical in insignificant matters.
0:43.0	Like the fact that you...
0:44.0	Only in really substantive matters.
0:46.0	Like the fact that Shane today managed to begin the show without the word so.
0:51.0	Oh, I did!
0:53.0	Yeah, that's so good.
0:55.0	But Ben, you're already fucking petty funny.
0:57.0	And you've already gotten those an explicit rating.
1:01.0	And we haven't even made it to the opening music.
1:05.0	Let's do a podcast.
1:07.0	Hello and welcome to Rational security the petty fogging edition I'm Shane Harris
1:17.7	If you were not up at what is it one o'clock in the morning? It was pretty late
1:21.5	Yeah, so there was just to get morning to it was pretty late yeah so there was just to just to get
1:23.5	which I'm to speed it was very late in the impeachment trial and John
1:27.3	Roberts had had enough damn it and decided to admonish he said I think it is appropriate for you for to admonish both the House managers
1:35.4	and the President's Council in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world's
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