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Rational Security

The "When You’re President They Let You Do It" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Flynn is cooperating with Bob Mueller's Russia investigation, and President Trump raises questions about whether he sought to obstruct justice. Deutsche Bank has been told to hand over information about Trump-related finances. And the national security adviser tries to make Trump into a modern-day Ronald Reagan.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

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0:22.4

So big news the US is relocating our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

0:27.0

Yeah just in time for Ben to go to Jerusalem.

0:30.0

It's gonna be in Jerusalem next week.

0:33.4

It's going to be an interesting week.

0:34.6

Yeah, well, the State Department noted that it usually takes about three years to, you know,

0:40.4

get permits for design and build a new embassy so we'll see if anything is left of Jerusalem by the time

0:46.8

But the Trump organization knows how they get those permits through man

0:49.7

Come on exactly this is the real estate prowess. By the time anybody listens to this podcast,

0:55.1

the speech will have been given.

0:57.6

And we will see if Jerusalem is a smoldering ash.

1:03.0

And Ben will not be here this week, but we don't know that he has actually been killed in Jerusalem,

1:07.0

so don't worry about that.

1:08.0

So if you don't, well, I've been, I'm, you know, the question is whether there will be a city to go to by the time I get there next week

1:16.6

Yeah, I mean look alarmism aside. I think we've seen a number of crises around Jerusalem in the last few years I'm not necessarily

1:23.6

expecting at all to explode but I will say that if one's goal was to stoke

1:29.0

tensions one could hardly do a better job of teeing up your public statement to stoke tensions

1:36.2

than the White House has done.

1:38.0

So Tammy congratulates the White House on their flawless execution of their terrible, terrible plan. in their

1:43.0

terrible, terrible plan.

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