The Trump-Biden Foreign Policy Transition: FDD's David Adesnik and John Hannah
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews former national security officials John Hannah and David Adesnik, now with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Together, they joined forces as co-editors and have just published a compilation of a set of essays called “From Trump to Biden: The Way Forward for U.S. National Security.” Hannah and Adesnik highlight their concerns for where the nation's national security stands today, and name pros-and-cons the new Biden administration should take away from Trump's time in office.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell. |
| 0:06.6 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. |
| 0:08.6 | Your mission is ours. |
| 0:12.4 | David Adesnik is a senior fellow and the director of research at the foundation for defensive |
| 0:17.6 | democracies. |
| 0:18.6 | A think tank here in Washington, D.C. John Hanna is also at the foundation, serving as a |
| 0:24.0 | senior counselor. |
| 0:25.7 | Both David and John have spent time in government. |
| 0:28.0 | David at the defense department during the Obama administration and John at the State |
| 0:32.1 | Department during the Bush 41 and the Clinton administrations and in the White House during |
| 0:37.0 | the Bush 43 administration. |
| 0:39.4 | David and John just joined me to talk about an important aspect of the transition from |
| 0:43.7 | the Trump to the Biden administrations. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our exclusive sponsor Lockheed |
| 0:50.8 | Martin. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm Michael Morrell and this is Intelligence Matters. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm David Pogue from CBS Sunday Morning. |
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