Hello, my friends. I want to open today's show with a huge thank you to all of the new subscribers, as well as everybody who emailed or message me yesterday about the show I posted with no guests. So many of you said you love the news, you love the clips. And from time to time, I don't have a guest, you're real happy that the show is there so I try to post

something every day whether it's just a conversation or whether it's what I call a full

show with the clips and the headlines either way the way you've shown your

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so much to me it's really inspiring it makes me feel very motivated to do the work when I see these signs and hear from you this way.

So I just wanted to say thank you.

And I can't tell you how grateful I am to have your support.

And I hope to see you at tonight's hang out at 8 p.m. East.

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Joining me today, one of the most respected journalists covering national security for over a decade.

Spencer Ackerman is here.

I'm very, very happy to share this conversation with you.

That is coming up at 34 minutes.

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