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Rational Security

"The Sessions Deathwatch" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his contacts with Russia. New information shows that thirty-nine states were targeted by Russian hackers during the 2016 election. And President Trump gives the military authority to ramp the number of troops in Afghanistan.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

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0:27.4

So are we starting the sessions death watch? I think we have to. This is the sessions death watch session. Yes, this is the sessions death watch session. You know if we do this it's because we have a perfect record I think so.

0:35.6

We've only done it once right? I thought we've done it too. I think we've declared a death watch at least twice.

0:39.5

We did the Flynn death watch and he died almost immediately.

0:44.1

We should say Michael Flynn is still very much alive.

0:47.2

Michael Flynn is alive, just no longer employed.

0:49.7

His professional life died within a few days or hours even of the Flynn death watch.

0:56.7

I think he might have been fired before the podcast was even released.

1:00.9

But what's the what's the other example of us doing a death wash edition and finishing someone off by doing it?

1:08.9

Yeah, I'm not sure one for one is such a great.

1:12.0

Oh, we had battle to the Death Watch.

1:14.1

Yeah.

1:14.7

Oh, that's when we couldn't figure out who was going to drop first.

1:17.4

Yeah.

1:18.2

So what's your over-end around this being the sessions?

1:20.5

Sessions did try to resign at one point so it's like he almost like took himself

1:26.1

out he trial ballooned his own death watch I'm thinking which he refused to talk

1:32.4

about yesterday.

1:33.4

I think we should, I think, let's just call it a session's death watch addition with the

1:38.8

proviso that this, some death watches are short, some death watches are short some death watches are medium size yeah it could be

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