From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place

you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my

take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Monday, January 12th. I'm back in Philadelphia,

back in the office after a really fantastic few weeks.

I got to say, I spent some time up in Hudson Valley with my wife's family in upstate New York,

came home, did a little bit of Pennsylvania, and then was out in West Texas for a couple weeks,

which was phenomenal. I love this country so much. I love the

open parts of this country so much. I'm questioning a little bit why I've lived in the city

for half my life, which basically comes up every time I go out to these rural places in America,

which I talked about on the suspension of the rules podcast last week.

But it is nice to be home.

It's awesome to be back in this beautiful studio that we've got here in Philadelphia

that we've been working on.

And we're jumping right in with some really big stuff going on.

Today we're going to cover the quote unquote Don Roe doctrine.

Trump is, I mean, he's just way better at naming stuff than other presidents.

Whatever you think of him, they're good at the brand stuff.

We're going to talk about how it fits into the national security strategy.

And I'm going to share some

kind of convoluted takes on this whole thing, because I think it is itself a bit convoluted, and I'm having

trouble parsing some stuff. Before we jump in, though, I just want to give you a reminder that on

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