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Biden's National Security Presidency So Far with Chris Whipple

The Lawfare Podcast

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Bill Burns: The Perfect CIA Director

John Avlon: Joe Biden was uniquely prepared to face down with Vladimir Putin. He says Bill Burns was the perfect person to be CIA director at the time, because he knew Putin better than anyone other than his inner circle. Avlon: Burns' intelligence helped Zelensky fend off those attempts on his life and had really the blueprint for the Russian invasion. The rest is history, but I tell the story of how that intelligence led to declassifying what we knew about Russia's disinformation plans,.

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