And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered zinc, which sort of seems sad. It makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. We use copper for wiring. There is a massive global appetite for copper. And the Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the Mining Company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. And the freeport Mining Company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and
they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. But they are a gigantic firm. And theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
that s one way to get kind of paranoid that maybe your intelligence agencies might turn on you or they re after you. that they re a political actor that needs to be managed. that s exactly what happened. in the months before president-elect nixon took office, he was so skeptical of intelligence agencies in the united states government that he refused to accept the intelligence briefings offered by the outgoing administration. he didn t take a single face-to-face meeting with the cia staff that was in place specifically to provide transition support to him. intelligence community sent nixon s transition, they sent them envelopes containing the presidential daily briefs since he wouldn t do a face-to-face briefing. at the end of his transition period, the office returned all the envelopes unopened. convinced they were political players, working behind the scene to get his opponent elected. in 50 years president nixon was the only president-elect to openly distrust the intelligence commun
director even before you take office, right? that s one way to get kind of paranoid that maybe your intelligence agencies might turn on you or they re after you. that they re a political actor that needs to be managed. that s exactly what happened. in the months before president-elect nixon took office, he was so skeptical of intelligence agencies in the united states government that he refused to accept the intelligence briefings offered by the outgoing administration. he didn t take a single face-to-face meeting with the cia staff that was in place specifically to provide transition support to him. intelligence community sent nixon s transition, they sent them envelopes containing the presidential daily briefs since he wouldn t do a face-to-face briefing. at the end of his transition period, the office returned all the envelopes unopened. convinced they were political players, working behind the scene to get his opponent elected. in 50 years president nixon was the only president-ele
cia staff that was in place specifically to provide transition support to him. intelligence community sent nixon s transition, they sent them envelopes containing the presidential daily briefs since he wouldn t do a face-to-face briefing. at the end of his transition period, the office returned all the envelopes unopened. convinced they were political players, working behind the scene to get his opponent elected. in 50 years president nixon was the only president-elect to openly distrust the intelligence community to that kind of degree before now. it seems like you have a tendency just looking at it from the outside to doubt american intelligence when it comes to russian hack i m trying to better understand why it seems that way. i just want them to be sure because it s a pretty serious charge. i want them to be sure and if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster and they were wrong. i want them to be sure.