1375 David Rothkopf and Sam Youngman
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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David Rothkopf is CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, Superclass, Power, Inc., National Insecurity, Great Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump.
Sam Youngman is a veteran political campaign reporter and former White House correspondent. Youngman covered the presidential campaigns of 2004, 2008 and 2012, countless U.S. House and Senate races, and the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama while working for The Hill, Reuters and other news organizations. A native of Kentucky, Youngman has a BA in journalism from Western Kentucky University and now lives in Los Angeles.
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi there, it is Friday, and I have got two great guests joining me today. |
| 0:07.2 | That's right, two. |
| 0:08.4 | I've got both Sam Youngman and David Rothkopf, two of my favorite people to talk to about |
| 0:14.0 | what the hell is going on in the world, help me understand it, help explain it, and I think |
| 0:18.4 | you're going to like both of those conversations. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm going to get right into the conversations. |
| 0:23.9 | It is Friday, and there is a cavalcade of news. |
| 0:27.6 | Yesterday was crazy, but there's just no way for me to get it all done today. |
| 0:33.0 | So I am going to jump right to the conversations. |
| 0:36.3 | I just will mention, of course, yesterday's news, a horrific plane crash in India, a United |
| 0:42.8 | States senator being tackled and handcuffed, a U.S. district judge ruling that Trump broke |
| 0:49.7 | the law when he federalized the California National Guard and he must return those troops to the control of the California governor, Gavin Newsom. |
| 0:58.1 | It's going to go all the way to the Supreme Court and they're probably going to decide for Trump and give him back his army. |
| 1:03.7 | And finally, of course, Israel launched what it called a preemptive strike on Iran, declared a state of emergency in Israel. |
| 1:10.5 | And Iran said this is a declaration of war |
| 1:14.6 | and retaliated with a drone attack. So yesterday was absolutely crazy. Normally, I would really dig into |
| 1:24.0 | covering it all, play a whole bunch of clips and mention these headlines. That's what I do at the beginning of every show. |
| 1:30.2 | But today is Friday. |
| 1:32.5 | It's summer Fridays. |
| 1:34.2 | And it's been a hell of a week of news. |
| 1:36.2 | I'm actually exhausted by it all. |
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