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From Cafe, this is United Security.

I'm Lisa Monaco.

And I'm Ken Waynestein.

Hey Ken, great to be back with you.

Yeah, it's great to be here and we're here in an official full-fledged way now with our new podcast.

Yep, this is our official launch episode of our new podcast United Security.

I still wish we could be doing this in the studio, but you and I are in our remote locations.

So one of these days we'll get back to having that fuzzy microphone between our two heads.

But for now, it's great to be back with you and I'm really excited to launch this.

I'm excited to and hey, being at home has its advantages, shorts and footflops.

We're more comfortable than the suit at the studio.

But it's really exciting to be part of this effort to have a podcast, to be doing this on a biweekly basis and to be doing it with you.

And there's a lot to talk about.

First, let me just ask you, what do you get up to since we last podcasted together?

Well, I've been like you. I've been juggling lots of different things.

Filling my days in home confinement here. I'm a partner in a law firm at O'Melvany and Myers.

I'm teaching at NYU, but lately I've been spending a bunch of time on efforts, both as a member of a former vice president Biden's Public Health Advisory Committee,

helping with a few other public health and Homeland Security experts advise him on the coronavirus.

And I'm also helping to lead the vetting process for the vice presidential nominee.

How about you? What do you've been up to?

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