The "RexSec" Edition

Rational Security

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Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

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🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The CIA concludes that Russian hackers tried to help Donald Trump get elected. Trump will nominate Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state. And the Obama administration is confident that journalist Austin Tice, held hostage in Syria, is alive. And a special guest joins the gang to discuss the week's news.

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0:20.0	So I think we need to come up with like a sexy tough acronym for Rex Tillerson.
0:29.0	Like sexy, rexy. Or like you have sex stuff. I was thinking
0:33.4	Rex sec sec sec sec secsk.
0:35.3	Rex secsac.
0:36.3	Yeah that sounds like a rucksack.
0:38.5	Rucksack? Or maybe like Brexit, but it doesn't sound sexy I'm sorry no no it sounds like
0:44.3	op sec like it sounds like some kind of like I think it is like a military term
0:48.8	rec sex no wait Rex Rex secs Rex secs. Rex sec.
0:54.0	Oh, they just going to call him R in the building?
0:56.0	No, R is already somebody in the building.
0:59.0	Oh, R is somebody.
1:00.0	They will just call him S, right, in the building.
1:02.0	Yes. S. in the building. Yes.
1:03.0	S. Mr. S.
1:05.0	Now I can't remember who R is. That's awful. I think R is the undersecretary for public diplomas.
1:11.0	No, not anymore.
1:12.0	You mean the person that Roger Ailes has... Secretary for public diplomacy. No, not anymore.
1:12.6	You mean the person that Roger Ailes has now
1:15.5	being floated as the occupant for?
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