Hi folks, Ken Waynestein here. With less than three weeks until the election, there is a heightened security threat

up polling locations across the country, and the government continues to issue warnings about foreign disinformation campaigns.

Meanwhile, President Trump's bout with the coronavirus has raised a host of national security concerns, including questions surrounding the line of succession beyond the executive branch.

And last week, DOJ charged two notorious ISIS militants for kidnapping and murdering American hostages.

I talk about all this and more with Lisa Monaco on the newest episode of the United Security Podcast.

Today we are sharing a clip with listeners of Stay Tune with Preat.

To listen to our full conversation and access all of the cafe insider content, try the membership free for two weeks.

You can do that at cafe.com slash insider. That's cafe.com slash insider.

College students with a valid.edu email qualify for a discount at cafe.com slash student. That's cafe.com slash student.

We look forward to having you as a part of the insider community.

All right, let's turn to more recent news just recently. We got big news of Justice Department that they had charged to notorious ISIS terrorists with a variety of charges, including hostages taking Americans and killing a murder of Americans.

And this relates to the two ISIS terrorists who had been held in custody of insurer for the last couple of years, and they were charged and then brought to the United States to face charges here in the Eastern District of Virginia for having held a number of Western prisoners, including four Americans psychologically and physically and sexually abusing them, torturing them and then ultimately killing them.

The number of them were killed by decapitation that they then showed by video over the internet. And these are two of four British citizens who went over to fight for ISIS in Syria, who were styled the Beatles because of their British accents, I think actually the hostages started calling them the Beatles.

The third member of this hostage taking cell is in custody of her in Turkey and a fourth who was known as jihadi john, who was the ringleader was killed in a US air strike several years ago.

Yes, so Ken, you know, this announcement from the Justice Department last week was I think really well summed up by our friend and former colleague John Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

Today is a good day, but it is also a solemn one. Today we remember the four innocent Americans whose lives were taken by ISIS.

I think he summed it up exactly right. You know, this has personal resonance for me as somebody who worked in the White House and worked on hostage policy issues.

I had a lot of contact with the families of the murdered Americans, brave journalists and tremendously brave aid workers and humanitarian.

I think it was a good day, but a solemn one to see the wheels of justice slowly but relentlessly turning to try and achieve some measure of justice.

And hopefully in my view, some measure of comfort for their families because you know, six years ago, we all witnessed the horrific, horrific scenes coming out of Iraq and Syria, the brutality of ISIS and these horrible beheading videos of these terrorists killing these brave Americans.

And you know, it's a testament to the work of professional folks in the counterterrorism community, intelligence community and prosecutors to just keep their nose to the grindstone and just relentlessly try and seek justice here.

But this was a long time coming and for a bunch of reasons that that we should get into.

...