WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.839 Welcome to the deep dive. Our mission is always 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:05.820 the same. We take these really disparate, high 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:09.000 -stakes sources, everything from congressional 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.740 gridlock and global diplomacy to dark military 00:00:12.740 --> 00:00:15.099 history and predictive election markets, and 00:00:15.099 --> 00:00:17.460 we pull out the key insights you need to be informed. 00:00:17.959 --> 00:00:20.160 And we have a powerful set of sources today. 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.679 They really, they illuminate the friction points 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:27.300 in U .S. policy, both at home and abroad. We're 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:29.079 going to get into the policy fights, grinding 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.020 legislation to a halt, the long -term fallout 00:00:32.020 --> 00:00:35.460 of past military actions, and some very quiet 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:38.020 moves by major global leaders. Okay, let's jump 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:39.719 right in then. Let's start with that legislative 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:41.840 chaos. The National Defense Authorization Act, 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.659 the NDAA, this is a bill that is usually a landmark 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:49.280 of bipartisanship. it's just stuck. So for anyone 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:51.520 who might confuse this with other spending bills, 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:54.060 what is the NDAA and why is that distinction 00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:56.719 from an appropriations bill so important? That 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:58.899 is the critical distinction. So the NDAA, and 00:00:58.899 --> 00:01:00.460 this is amazing, it's passed every year since 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:03.719 1961. It's a policy framework. The rule book. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.159 The rule book, exactly. It says what the Department 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.019 of Defense can and can't do, what its policies 00:01:08.019 --> 00:01:10.859 are. The appropriations bill, that's the checkbook. 00:01:10.939 --> 00:01:13.000 That's the actual money. Got it. And because 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:18.180 the NDAA is this mandatory must pass Bill. Well... 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.540 It becomes a magnet for everyone trying to attach 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:22.540 completely unrelated stuff to it. And that's 00:01:22.540 --> 00:01:25.099 exactly the snag this year, isn't it? GOP leaders 00:01:25.099 --> 00:01:28.159 are scrambling over these last -minute intra 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.400 -party fights that have really nothing to do 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.620 with defense. Nothing at all. It's pushing the 00:01:32.620 --> 00:01:35.420 whole thing way past its deadline. So if these 00:01:35.420 --> 00:01:37.780 things aren't about the military, why are they 00:01:37.780 --> 00:01:40.859 even being allowed to hijack the process? It's 00:01:40.859 --> 00:01:43.060 pure political calculation. It's expediency. 00:01:43.540 --> 00:01:46.120 Look, the NDA is the only train leaving the station 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:48.019 that's strong enough to carry these other— controversial 00:01:48.019 --> 00:01:50.780 policies. Right. So leadership is using it to 00:01:50.780 --> 00:01:53.500 appease different wings of the party and frankly 00:01:53.500 --> 00:01:55.599 to address some big political vulnerabilities 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.480 before the midterms next year. OK. And those 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:00.420 vulnerabilities are driving these sticking points. 00:02:00.579 --> 00:02:04.719 First one. Housing legislation. I'm seeing White 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.680 House officials are pushing hard for some version 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.210 of the Senate's road to housing legislation. 00:02:10.430 --> 00:02:12.990 Yeah. And that push is a direct response to some 00:02:12.990 --> 00:02:15.750 very pointed political advice. Oh, really? The 00:02:15.750 --> 00:02:19.069 top Republican pollster, Tony Fabrizio, he told 00:02:19.069 --> 00:02:21.669 House members in a closed door meeting that the 00:02:21.669 --> 00:02:25.439 GOP has to focus on housing affordability. It's 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.520 a huge inflation pressure point with voters. 00:02:28.219 --> 00:02:30.280 But this is where the mechanics get messy. The 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.659 House Financial Services Chair, French Hill, 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:34.900 he opposes parts of it. He's basically saying, 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.060 hey, you can't just jam a housing bill through 00:02:37.060 --> 00:02:39.879 on the NDAA without my committee's buy -in. It's 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.939 a total turf war. So you have political necessity 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:45.139 clashing with these institutional turf wars. 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.219 OK. And beyond housing, they're also looking 00:02:47.219 --> 00:02:50.319 at expanding IVF coverage in vitro fertilization 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.099 for military families under TRICARE. Now that 00:02:53.099 --> 00:02:55.280 seems like a no -brainer, a way to support military 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.319 families, but it's another point of friction, 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.879 isn't it? It absolutely is. I mean, the provision 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:01.919 was in both the House and Senate versions of 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.379 the bill, but it was specifically left out last 00:03:04.379 --> 00:03:08.379 year. Why? Because of really strong concerns 00:03:08.379 --> 00:03:11.740 from some conservatives about, you know, pro 00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:14.800 -life protections. Speaker Johnson's comment 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.520 on it was very telling. He said he supports access 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.259 when sufficient pro -life protections are in 00:03:20.259 --> 00:03:23.080 place. So he's threading a needle. an extremely 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:25.580 tight needle. They have to pass the bill, but 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:28.560 they absolutely cannot afford to alienate a key 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.979 part of their base. And on top of all that, they're 00:03:30.979 --> 00:03:32.740 still trying to figure out whether to add new 00:03:32.740 --> 00:03:35.340 restrictions on U .S. investments in China. Which 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:37.860 is a debate happening on like every piece of 00:03:37.860 --> 00:03:39.780 major legislation right now. It seems like it. 00:03:39.849 --> 00:03:42.509 But just to see how fast priorities can shift 00:03:42.509 --> 00:03:44.789 when the whole bill is at risk, look at the AI 00:03:44.789 --> 00:03:47.150 moratorium. Right, that failed. It failed completely. 00:03:47.590 --> 00:03:49.689 Lawmakers had to back away from this contentious 00:03:49.689 --> 00:03:52.629 moratorium on state AI regulations, even though 00:03:52.629 --> 00:03:55.310 a major figure, Steve Scalise, was backing it. 00:03:55.710 --> 00:03:58.330 He basically admitted, yeah, the NDA wasn't the 00:03:58.330 --> 00:04:00.629 best place for this. So there are limits. There 00:04:00.629 --> 00:04:02.789 are limits to how much you can bolt onto this 00:04:02.789 --> 00:04:04.550 thing before it just collapses under its own 00:04:04.550 --> 00:04:07.479 weight. So the big insight here is that the NDA's 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:10.280 traditional smooth passage is under threat because 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.159 of these short -term political wins being prioritized 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.079 over, you know, stable long -term defense policy. 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.160 It's that constant fight, isn't it? Principle 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.259 versus expediency. And if you want to see the 00:04:21.259 --> 00:04:24.420 truly devastating consequences of choosing expediency 00:04:24.420 --> 00:04:27.560 in military policy, we have to shift focus. We 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.589 need to look at the dark legacy. of the US -backed 00:04:30.589 --> 00:04:33.970 Afghan Zero Units. Yeah, this story with the 00:04:33.970 --> 00:04:36.050 DC shooter, Luckenwall, it really brought this 00:04:36.050 --> 00:04:39.410 whole history roaring back. So who exactly were 00:04:39.410 --> 00:04:42.750 these Zero Units? They were essentially the CIA's 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:45.209 Afghan equivalent of US special operations, think 00:04:45.209 --> 00:04:48.269 Navy SEALs or Army Rangers. OK. But, and this 00:04:48.269 --> 00:04:50.269 is the crucial part, they had much less oversight 00:04:50.269 --> 00:04:52.709 and far, far looser rules of engagement. Their 00:04:52.709 --> 00:04:54.990 missions were called night raids, which is just... 00:04:54.829 --> 00:04:57.430 sanitized jargon for kill capture operations. 00:04:57.850 --> 00:04:59.870 And the sources show this whole model was based 00:04:59.870 --> 00:05:03.230 on a flawed blueprint from the past. That's the 00:05:03.230 --> 00:05:05.829 shocking part, the lineage. These units, they 00:05:05.829 --> 00:05:08.730 were stood up in 2008 and they were modeled directly 00:05:08.730 --> 00:05:11.649 on the Vietnam era Phoenix program. Wow. That 00:05:11.649 --> 00:05:15.110 program neutralized over 81 ,000 people. But 00:05:15.110 --> 00:05:16.629 here's the data point that was just ignored. 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:20.839 A 1971 Pentagon study found that only 3 % of 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:22.660 those people were actually high -ranking Viet 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:26.579 Cong. 97 % were either low -level or just innocent 00:05:26.579 --> 00:05:28.699 civilians. And they recycled that blueprint anyway. 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:30.980 They recycled it in Afghanistan. It's unbelievable. 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:34.980 And predictably, the lack of oversight. led to 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:39.019 just horrific, documented atrocities with zero 00:05:39.019 --> 00:05:41.500 accountability. It did. Zero units committed 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:44.639 war crimes, extrajudicial executions of prisoners, 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.860 often found hooded, zip -tied. Some reports suggest 00:05:47.860 --> 00:05:50.319 they'd murder every military -aged male in an 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.860 area. That's war. Human Rights Watch cited these 00:05:52.860 --> 00:05:55.600 chilling examples. Five civilians in one family, 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:57.500 including an elderly woman and a child, killed 00:05:57.500 --> 00:06:00.360 in a raid. A 60 -year -old tribal elder shot 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.829 in the eye. It's just brutal stuff. So if these 00:06:02.829 --> 00:06:04.889 were US backed, how was the US government not 00:06:04.889 --> 00:06:07.209 held directly accountable? That was the loophole. 00:06:07.350 --> 00:06:09.709 That was the whole point of the expediency. By 00:06:09.709 --> 00:06:13.089 using CIA -led partner forces, the U .S. could 00:06:13.089 --> 00:06:15.790 sidestep its own laws. It avoided congressional 00:06:15.790 --> 00:06:18.069 oversight. It avoided accountability. Because 00:06:18.069 --> 00:06:20.230 they weren't technically U .S. forces. Exactly. 00:06:20.589 --> 00:06:22.850 And that created this huge intelligence problem, 00:06:23.129 --> 00:06:25.370 too. Sometimes the units were basically used 00:06:25.370 --> 00:06:29.350 as enforcers for local warlords or to kill landowners 00:06:29.350 --> 00:06:31.910 to steal their property. The whole mission was 00:06:31.910 --> 00:06:33.810 corrupted. And now we're seeing the fallout. 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:36.629 Around 10 ,000 former Zero Unit members were 00:06:36.629 --> 00:06:39.689 relocated here to the U .S. But the stress on 00:06:39.689 --> 00:06:42.069 someone like Lakenwall, who was recruited at 00:06:42.069 --> 00:06:45.370 15, can you imagine? 15. A child. And he served 00:06:45.370 --> 00:06:48.350 for a decade. The stress was just extreme. He 00:06:48.350 --> 00:06:50.269 went from being a critical asset to just being 00:06:50.269 --> 00:06:52.769 abandoned. And that abandonment was systemic. 00:06:53.230 --> 00:06:56.029 Lakenwall lost his job because his work authorization 00:06:56.029 --> 00:06:57.930 card didn't come through. Even though his asylum 00:06:57.930 --> 00:07:00.709 was approved, he was literally in tears, unable 00:07:00.709 --> 00:07:03.180 to feed his wife and five kids. And he reached 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:05.259 out for help. He sent a desperate message to 00:07:05.259 --> 00:07:08.500 a CIA program group chat, went completely unanswered, 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:10.839 a total cut off of support. So this is the cruel 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.360 twist for them. They were promised protection, 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.139 but they're stuck in this legal limbo. If they 00:07:16.139 --> 00:07:18.300 were so essential, why can't the U .S. government 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:21.160 just give them basic veteran support like VA 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.120 health care? Why are these programs being cut? 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:24.879 Because they're not legally considered U .S. 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.120 veterans. They're treated as foreign nationals 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.579 who assisted the U .S. That's a fine line. It's 00:07:29.579 --> 00:07:33.180 a devastating line. As of July. About 3 ,000 00:07:33.180 --> 00:07:36.240 of them still didn't have work permits. And unlike 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.339 U .S. vets, they're completely ineligible for 00:07:39.339 --> 00:07:41.000 VA health care, for mental health treatment, 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.879 for disability pensions, all of it, despite seeing 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.199 the same, if not more, intense combat. And now 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:50.279 the support that does exist is being cut off. 00:07:50.300 --> 00:07:53.399 It is. The 2026 budget proposal recommends terminating 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.620 Operation Enduring Welcome. That's the program 00:07:55.620 --> 00:07:58.740 that helped relocate them. One group, AfghaniVac, 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.009 called it a profound betrayal. This is the human 00:08:02.009 --> 00:08:04.370 cost of that short -term military expediency. 00:08:04.670 --> 00:08:08.649 A staggering human cost. How do we pivot from 00:08:08.649 --> 00:08:11.509 the cost of military failure abroad to the early 00:08:11.509 --> 00:08:13.949 signals of political trouble at home? Let's turn 00:08:13.949 --> 00:08:17.290 domestic forecasting to the cold math of prediction 00:08:17.290 --> 00:08:19.589 markets. We're zooming in on a special election 00:08:19.589 --> 00:08:21.970 in Tennessee's seventh congressional district, 00:08:22.189 --> 00:08:25.670 TNO7. a very deep red district. And this is a 00:08:25.670 --> 00:08:27.149 perfect example of why you have to look past 00:08:27.149 --> 00:08:29.550 the headline. The Republican, Matt Van Epps, 00:08:29.730 --> 00:08:32.529 he won. Everyone knew he would. The markets had 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:35.049 him at 99 percent. So no surprise there. No. 00:08:35.610 --> 00:08:38.090 But the key insight isn't who won. It's the margin 00:08:38.090 --> 00:08:41.370 of victory. And that margin has huge implications 00:08:41.370 --> 00:08:44.240 for the 2026 midterms. And here's the data that 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.899 jumped out at me. Traders were pricing in a 98 00:08:46.899 --> 00:08:49.299 % chance that Van Epps would win by a margin 00:08:49.299 --> 00:08:53.820 of 5 to 9 .99%. Which sounds solid enough. Right, 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:56.179 but you have to compare it. Just one year ago, 00:08:56.500 --> 00:08:59.259 Donald Trump won that same district by 22 points. 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:02.879 That is a massive swing. A 12 to 17 percentage 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.820 point swing toward the Democrat. In a deep red 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:08.480 district. in one year. What does that signal? 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.720 It's a huge warning sign for the GOP. If a Democrat 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:13.659 can close the gap that much in Trump country, 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.379 it means moderate Democrats running in actual 00:09:16.379 --> 00:09:18.360 swing districts just became a whole lot more 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.440 competitive. And the usual excuse of, oh, it 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.559 was a special election, low turnout doesn't work 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.500 here, does it? It doesn't fly at all. Turnout 00:09:25.500 --> 00:09:28.940 in TNO7 was high, very comparable to the 2022 00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:31.669 midterms. So you can't just dismiss the swing. 00:09:31.970 --> 00:09:34.370 It seems real. And the markets reacted instantly. 00:09:34.470 --> 00:09:36.269 Instantly. This is why prediction markets are 00:09:36.269 --> 00:09:38.629 so clarifying. It's not opinion. It's people 00:09:38.629 --> 00:09:40.429 putting their money where their mouth is. The 00:09:40.429 --> 00:09:42.710 2026 House market was already shifting toward 00:09:42.710 --> 00:09:45.529 the Democrats. But after this result, it accelerated. 00:09:46.029 --> 00:09:47.690 Democrat odds of taking back the House jumped 00:09:47.690 --> 00:09:50.370 from 72 percent to 78 percent. And the Senate 00:09:50.370 --> 00:09:52.269 market got a little shaky, too. It really did. 00:09:52.669 --> 00:09:55.169 For a moment there. When the early results made 00:09:55.169 --> 00:09:57.909 the margin look even smaller, like under 5%, 00:09:57.909 --> 00:10:00.230 Republican odds of holding the Senate just plummeted 00:10:00.230 --> 00:10:03.629 to 60%. Wow. They rebounded a bit, but they still 00:10:03.629 --> 00:10:06.210 settled at 68 % for the GOP to keep the Senate. 00:10:06.409 --> 00:10:09.070 That's a measurable 4 % drop post -election. 00:10:09.730 --> 00:10:11.990 The markets are reacting to a perceived fragility 00:10:11.990 --> 00:10:13.850 in the Republican hold. OK, from the volatility 00:10:13.850 --> 00:10:16.590 of elections, let's go to the quiet diplomacy 00:10:16.590 --> 00:10:20.110 of the global stage. Pope Leo IV's debut international 00:10:20.110 --> 00:10:23.029 trip. six days in Turkey and Lebanon. And the 00:10:23.029 --> 00:10:25.029 big question was, what would the style of this 00:10:25.029 --> 00:10:27.090 mild -mannered American pope be like? Well, he 00:10:27.090 --> 00:10:29.730 came back from a very highly scripted tour that 00:10:29.730 --> 00:10:32.950 pretty much confirmed his character. Stolid, 00:10:33.230 --> 00:10:35.789 quiet, what you see is what you get. So a real 00:10:35.789 --> 00:10:38.009 contrast to his predecessor. A huge contrast 00:10:38.009 --> 00:10:40.710 to Pope Francis, who was known for being spontaneous, 00:10:41.169 --> 00:10:43.870 you know, the famous, who am I to judge, line. 00:10:44.629 --> 00:10:46.590 Leo's most surprising disclosure was that he 00:10:46.590 --> 00:10:49.110 was thinking about retiring before the conclave. 00:10:49.389 --> 00:10:51.870 That's about as spicy as it got. But in terms 00:10:51.870 --> 00:10:54.370 of his actual message, Hugh was really following 00:10:54.370 --> 00:10:57.090 in Francis' footsteps, protecting migrants, the 00:10:57.090 --> 00:10:59.370 environment, support for a two -state solution. 00:10:59.450 --> 00:11:02.070 It was all about continuity. Absolutely. And 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:03.990 you see that continuity in his style of quiet 00:11:03.990 --> 00:11:07.070 diplomacy. In Turkey, his goal was to soothe 00:11:07.070 --> 00:11:09.110 the centuries -old tensions between the Catholic 00:11:09.110 --> 00:11:11.370 and Orthodox churches. And how did he do it? 00:11:11.529 --> 00:11:13.590 He sat through two hours of chanting at the Church 00:11:13.590 --> 00:11:16.159 of St. George. Two hours? Yeah. just showing 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.559 a capacity for a respectful presence, not trying 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.799 to make some grand statement. And his visit to 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.080 Lebanon must have had some powerful timing, given 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:25.679 everything going on in the region. Incredibly 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:29.179 sensitive timing. He held a mass right at the 00:11:29.179 --> 00:11:32.220 site of the 2020 Beirut port blast, spoke with 00:11:32.220 --> 00:11:34.379 victims' families, and all this was happening 00:11:34.379 --> 00:11:36.659 on the anniversary of a ceasefire while Israeli 00:11:36.659 --> 00:11:38.259 airstrikes were still happening in the South. 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:40.879 He also had a warning about technology. He did. 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.460 He warned about AI saying that rapidly advancing 00:11:44.460 --> 00:11:47.860 tech could exacerbate injustice. But the thing 00:11:47.860 --> 00:11:50.299 he really emphasized was that his most important 00:11:50.299 --> 00:11:53.360 work is done behind the scenes. He even said 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.259 he met with religious leaders in Lebanon who 00:11:56.259 --> 00:11:59.279 represent in reality political authorities involved 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:02.159 in the conflicts. So quiet diplomacy. He prefers 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.090 discretion over headlines. We have covered an 00:12:05.090 --> 00:12:07.210 incredible amount of ground in this deep dive 00:12:07.210 --> 00:12:09.610 from the specific, you know, non -defense fights 00:12:09.610 --> 00:12:12.669 holding up the NDAA to the deep historical roots 00:12:12.669 --> 00:12:14.970 and human cost of these unaccountable military 00:12:14.970 --> 00:12:17.750 actions and the political signals pointing to 00:12:17.750 --> 00:12:20.470 next year's elections. And the thread that connects 00:12:20.470 --> 00:12:22.909 all of it. really, is this negotiation between 00:12:22.909 --> 00:12:25.509 principle and expediency. Whether it's lawmakers 00:12:25.509 --> 00:12:28.049 tacking on writers for political leverage, or 00:12:28.049 --> 00:12:30.470 the CIA using a loophole to avoid oversight, 00:12:30.950 --> 00:12:33.409 or a world leader like the pope choosing quiet 00:12:33.409 --> 00:12:36.690 discretion over a big splash. It's all about 00:12:36.690 --> 00:12:39.250 these constant strategic tradeoffs. Which raises 00:12:39.250 --> 00:12:41.590 an important final question for you, the listener, 00:12:41.809 --> 00:12:44.450 to think about. When you consider the NDAA's 00:12:44.450 --> 00:12:46.830 reliance on those unrelated writers for political 00:12:46.830 --> 00:12:49.669 game, and you think about the documented intelligence 00:12:49.669 --> 00:12:52.389 failures, civilian murders by the zero units 00:12:52.389 --> 00:12:54.210 and then you see the unexpected volatility in 00:12:54.210 --> 00:12:56.750 that Tennessee election margin. What is the true 00:12:56.750 --> 00:12:59.230 cost in both legislative stability and in human 00:12:59.230 --> 00:13:02.029 lives when political actors prioritize these 00:13:02.029 --> 00:13:05.070 short -term strategic wins over long -term accountability 00:13:05.070 --> 00:13:07.570 or clarity? What critical information are you 00:13:07.570 --> 00:13:09.350 missing in the daily political noise?