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This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined again by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman\u2014also of Georgetown University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies\u2014 to talk over the week\u2019s national security news, including:

• \u201cTerror in Moscow.\u201d On Friday, March 22, a group of gunmen unleashed an attack on a concert hall outside Moscow that killed over 130 people, shooting into a crowd of concertgoers before setting the hall on fire. The Islamic State in Khorasan, the Afghanistan branch of ISIS known as ISIS-K, quickly claimed credit for the attack, and Russian authorities have arrested four suspects. The Kremlin, without evidence, has also continued to hint that Ukraine is somehow responsible. What does the attack tell us about ISIS-K, and what does it mean for the Russian government?
• \u201cApril, Come She Will.\u201d After a brief delay, Donald Trump\u2019s hush money trial in Manhattan has been scheduled to begin on April 15\u2014the first of Trump\u2019s criminal cases to go to trial. Meanwhile, a New York appeals court threw Trump a lifeline, reducing his appeal bond in the civil fraud case against him from half a billion dollars to $175 million. Will ol\u2019 Donny Trump be able to wriggle out of this jam once again?
• \u201cCome On, Aileen.\u201d Judge Aileen Cannon is at it again down in Fort Pierce, Florida. As she presides over Trump\u2019s classified documents case, motions are piling up on her desk without any sign of a ruling, and she issued a strange, convoluted order instructing both parties to \u201cengage with\u201d potential jury instructions reflecting unusual readings of the Presidential Records Act in relation to the Espionage Act. Just what is Judge Cannon doing? And how, if at all, can Jack Smith respond? 

For object lessons, Alan endorsed the podcast \u201cNext Year in Moscow,\u201d on Russians living in exile who departed their country after the beginning of Putin\u2019s war with Ukraine. Tyler sang the praises of Waxahatchee\u2019s new album \u201cTigers Blood.\u201d And Quinta recommended a reflection on Baltimore\u2019s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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