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Today, we sit down with Jonna Mendez, the former chief of disguise at the CIA. She was recruited to the agency in 1966, spent 27 years in service, and is on the Board of Directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. She spent her career in the Office of Technical Services of the CIA, which is staffed by engineers, chemists, physicists, makeup artists and counterfeiters. It's the part of the CIA you probably imagine when you think of a James Bond movie.
In this podcast, we chat with her about her favorite CIA gadgets, what her scariest moments in the service were, the time she got to impress George H.W. Bush and what it's like being in the CIA.
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On today's podcast, we sit down with Minky Worden, the Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch. Worden authored the 2008 book China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges and has previously lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to the Democratic Party of Hong Kong chairman Martin Lee.
We chatted with Worden about the current human rights crisis in China, the state of press freedom there, how global organizations could respond in a helpful way and the opportunity to do something about it before the 2022 Olympic games in Beijing, China.
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On today's podcast, we sit down with Ciaran O'Connor, the Chief Marketing Officer of Braver Angels. Braver Angels is an organization that is seeking to depolarize America by getting people with different political views to speak with each other. O'Connor, a former Obama campaign staffer and self-proclaimed liberal, joined the group after Trump's victory in 2016 to seek out a new path in politics.
In this episode, we talk about the monumental task of bridging the partisan divide, opine on whether the country is actually divided, and chat about how to have difficult political conversations.
You can follow Ciaran on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/ciaranjoconnor
You can read more about Braver Angels here: https://braverangels.org/
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On today's Tangle episode we sit down Anna Massoglia, an investigative researcher with OpenSecrets. Her work exposes how money is being spent in politics, tracks the sources of "dark money" and helps illuminate the underworld of campaign spending.
OpenSecrets is a non-partisan organization used by journalists across the world that tracks money in politics.
You can find Anna on Twitter @annalecta and you can visit OpenSecrets at https://www.opensecrets.org/
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Frank Morano is the host of "The Other Side of Midnight," one of the most popular political radio programs in New York City. This self-described "center-left" populist is a two-time Trump voter with high hopes for Andrew Yang and stories about his relationships with everyone from Roger Stone to John Gotti Jr.
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On today's Tangle pod, we sit down with Alex Nowrasteh to discuss Joe Biden's immigration bill. Alex is the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a Libertarian think tank.
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Tangle News' founder Isaac Saul discusses the final polls, what he is looking for, and his 2020 electoral college and the Senate race predictions.
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Introduction, hellos and what the last batch of polls are telling us.
The early vote and what we can take away from the numbers so far. Plus, the data in there that’s sticking out to me.
What I’ll be watching tonight as the results come in: the red and blue mirages, the Florida county that could be the earliest indication of who will win.
Florida, the best political advertisement of the week, and how Trump can pull off another upset this year.
The court battles, voter suppression, counting the ballots and the known unknowns.
My mom’s rejected ballot in Pennsylvania, my prediction in Pennsylvania, and why my home state feels uniquely positioned to defy the data.
My electoral college prediction, my hot take about Joe Biden’s path to victory and how this election could change the way we think about the electoral college map in the United States.
The Senate races. Who will end with the majority and what’s going to happen in Arizona, Colorado, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.
What to expect on election a day and in the days that follow (note: we’re going to need to be patient). A closing message about the dangerous stuff that’s going to pop up in the next 72 hours, and how to be a responsible citizen along the way. Plus, some thank you’s.
Thank you!
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