Interview top nonfiction authors about the latest work. All programs are also available as podcasts. Thanks for sitting down with me today, your book provides the interesting background and detail not just about your career and intelligence debates of the past but its very much relevant to the news of our current days. Its four years later, we are still fighting about russian interference in 2016, republicans and democrats are still debating about whether the investigations were handled property four years ago whether you of 2016, drew the right conclusions about russian acti action. Your book opens with a scene after the election, before the inauguration. Your breathing congressional leaders in going to new york to meet trump and his team. In the sharp partisan divide when you brief congress, describe that and talk about whether that was inevitable given the politics of our moment will could something have been done differently . I was asked to brief them we learned about what was doi
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment actors, movements, and organizations, highlighting recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportu
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Recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape from these movements so we can develop an understanding of how the
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