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The Line Between Independence and Insurrection

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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Do You Believe in Government? Andrew, I Believe in Service. I Can Fix It

elizabeth newman held the title of assistant secretary for counter terrorism and threat prevention under president donald j. Trump. She had sort of worked in the area of counterterrorism, basically since right after nine 11. Her last act was to go to her team and say, what is the data tell us about what this kind of coved lock down can do? They come back and they tell her, there will be violence on the other side of reopening. This is an inevitable product of the kind of isolation that we are now putting people through. It's one in a series of warnings that were buried, deep, sixed, watered down by the trump administration.

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