and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the mob? there was a similarity, yeah. i didn t realise until shortly before we were getting married that my first husband had an unusualjob. when he told me about it, i had. i had come from wichita, kansas. i was in europe. i was not full of information about what the cia even was. he said, you know, there will be a lot of t
were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the mob? there was a similarity, yeah. i didn t realise until shortly before we were getting married that my first husband had an unusualjob. when he told me about it, i had. i had come from wichita, kansas. i was in europe. i was not full of information about what the cia even was. he said, you know, there will be a lot of travel, some interesting opportunities. he said, i think you l
pleasure. well, it s great to have you here. what do you think are the qualities you possess that made you a good spy? no one s asked me that before. um. i m tenacious, i m a. ..a bit adventurous. that s how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the m
attention, any attention to liberal comments made post verdict, you would have noticed that you were hearing not so subtle warnings of a maga uprising. trump and his maga followers are digging in, trying to tear down the system. is he perfectly willing to call out the mob, basically. and have them attack all of these people and threaten their safety. there is going to be violence. there is going to be trouble. this is wrong, there s going to be some problems here, maybe some violence. and this president, former president should not have done what he did. i don t think he has a problem with the concept of violence. laura: now, why would they all say this? seems like almost coordinated. after all, they won the battle, at least by convicting trump. that was their dream. so what s their motive for fanning the flames now? well, since they can t credibly argue that you are better off than you were four years ago. they need more than just lawfare to win in november. and ev
A discussion about the phrase’s ambiguous meaning among Republicans. Also: The Texas abortion ruling; speech on campus; the Electoral College; Trump and NATO.