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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Preet asks Senator Cory Booker a lightning round of questions about being Newark’s mayor, who he wants to play him in a biopic, and his favorite party game. 

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REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:

• Street Fight (dir. Marshall Curry), StreetFightFilm.com, 2005
• Jonathan D. Tepperman, “Complicating the Race,” New York Times, 4/28/2002
• Cory Booker Tweet about Danny DeVito, Twitter, 7/2/2014
• Werewolf: A Party Game for Devious People, PlayWereWolf.Co

In this episode of CAFE Insider, “Pardon Me?” Preet and Anne break down President Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his friend and advisor Roger Stone, the unusual circumstances under which Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen is returning to federal prison, the pair of long-anticipated Supreme Court decisions concerning Trump’s personal financial records, and the congressional testimony of former U.S. Attorney for SDNY Geoff Berman. 

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A weekly Note from Elie is part of the CAFE Brief, and Insider members can listen to a recording of the note the same day. Please enjoy Elie reading this week's note, "Ghislaine Maxwell and the “Would You Cooperate” Game," and read his note in your inbox every Friday.

On this inaugural episode of United Security, “Bounties, Bolton, and COVID-19,” Lisa Monaco and Ken Wainstein discuss recent reporting that the Russians paid bounties to Taliban linked militias to kill U.S. service members in Afghanistan, make sense of the Bolton saga including a breakdown of the pre-publication review process for former government officials, and provide an update on the resurgence of COVID-19.

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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub discusses her time as counsel to the House Ethics Committee and offers some hopeful examples of election reform. 

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REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:

• James Bornemeier, “‘How-Not-To' Guide: Helping Politicians to Go by the Book,” Los Angeles Times, 5/13/1992
• “General election 2019: How much can parties spend?,” BBC, 11/4/2019
• “Matching Funds Program,” New York City Campaign Finance Board, 2020
• Sarah Kliff, “Seattle’s radical plan to fight big money in politics,” Vox, 11/5/2018