113: A Commander in Chief Moment
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson to discuss the latest with the Russia-Ukraine war and the downward spiraling of Vladimir Putin, the effect fracturing democracy at home has on the rest of the world, and the multi-faceted importance of President Joe Biden’s commander in chief moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. As we get deeper into 2022, it is time for all of us to do our part, to save |
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| 0:39.9 | Welcome back to the LinkedIn project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today, I'm joined by fellow co-founder, |
| 0:46.6 | author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, and host of LPTVs The Breakdown, the one the only |
| 0:52.8 | Rig Wilson. Hey, Reed, it's strange to be in the same room with you. It is, but it's great to see |
| 0:57.4 | you and welcome back. Thanks, brother. So before we get started, you and I are here in beautiful |
| 1:02.9 | sunny California. We are. And up and down the state this week and all over the country recently. |
| 1:07.8 | So it's nice to be out in the amongst the people. We've had a great trip out here, folks. We've |
| 1:12.8 | met with some amazing people and the energy for this election seems really different and high. |
| 1:18.8 | Now, I think you're right. And I think that's the thing I have noticed since November of last |
| 1:23.9 | year, December, even January, there was a lot of, I don't know, I don't know if this is going to |
| 1:29.2 | go the right way. You know, maybe it doesn't matter. But now it certainly seems like the president's |
| 1:34.6 | leadership on Ukraine in particular. I think it's the first time in a long time, maybe in years |
| 1:42.0 | that Americans seem united by something. You know, you would have thought on one level that |
| 1:47.4 | COVID would have brought America together. And we would have said, this is a terrible disease. |
| 1:51.6 | We have to face this. We have to deal with this. We have to all come together and |
| 1:55.4 | shared sacrifice all the things that Americans have traditionally done in times of terrible |
| 1:59.6 | crisis. But that turned into a political circus. And I think the fact that America is completely |
| 2:06.3 | united, completely in support of the Ukrainian people and of Vladimir Zelensky. And they have said flat |
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