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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

145: To Risk It All with Admiral James Stavridis

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Following the Memorial Day weekend, James and Al welcome former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stravidis, to look back on some of our greatest naval heroes. Then, they discuss the ways the different branches of the armed forces are responding to modern challenges, the need for more ships, and how strategic ambiguity is being used to deter a conflict between China and Taiwan.

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0:32.0

Hello and welcome to the Politics World War with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

0:46.0

This week our guest is retired four star US naval officer and former NATO Supreme Allied commander

0:54.0

Admiral James, Stavridus and the author of a new book, this is about as I think 12 for 13th to risk it all.

1:01.0

And remember we love taking your questions so right to politics world.

1:05.0

Rome a gmail.com or send a tweet to add pliticon for next week's show.

1:09.0

We'll get to as many as we can and don't forget to tell us where you're from.

1:13.0

And please check out the links to this week's sponsor, the Jordan Harbanger Show in our show notes.

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1:22.0

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1:31.0

Hey James, do you remember when Trump and allies like Jim Jordan were complaining about all the time and wasted resources of special counsel Robert Mueller pointed by the Trump Justice Department.

1:43.0

He was wasted on the hoax of the Trump Russian connection. Well, in less than two years, Mueller got 34 convictions including Trump's campaign manager, the deputy campaign manager and national security adviser and report that left no doubt that the Russians sought to help Trump in 2016.

2:01.0

The only question was whether you could prove collusion.

2:04.0

Let's fast forward to the day and the counter moved by Trump and William Barr to claim the real problem, the real hoax was what the Clinton and Democrats cooked up to try to incriminate poor old Donald Trump.

2:19.0

And they appointed John Durham to look into this. Durham has been doing that now for three years.

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