Hey, I'm Cassie Depeckle, the host of Wanderies against the odds.

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Today, we're going to talk about the bombshell development that Trump knew that Russia had

placed bounties on American soldiers and did nothing about it, and my interview with

Congresswoman Katie Porter, where we'll discuss the Senate's inadequate police reform

legislation, had a whole bill bar accountable for his illicit firing of US attorney, and

had a hold onto districts like hers that have flipped from red to blue as we head into

the election.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

I'm going to focus on one story today, and it's out of the New York Times, and that

is that Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, secretly offered Taliban militants

bounties, meaning cash, to kill US troops that Trump has known about this since March,

and that he has done literally nothing about it.

So here's what happened.

The intelligence finding was briefed to Trump, and then the National Security Council discussed

this at an interagency meeting in March.

So according to the Times, quote, officials developed a menu of potential options, starting

with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating

series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any

steps.

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