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The West Wing Weekly

3.05: War Crimes (with Fmr. UN Ambassador David Pressman)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

David Pressman is the former US Ambassador to the United Nations and was the first-ever Director for War Crimes and Atrocities on the National Security Council at the White House, and we're thrilled to have him on the podcast to discuss the "War Crimes" episode with us. Plus, Josh and Hrishi get into it over Toby's "we're a team" speech. For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/305.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the West Wing Weekly. I'm Rashique Shereway.

0:09.4

And I'm Josh Wilmelina.

0:10.8

And today we're talking about war crimes, both the episode and the topic.

0:15.3

Indeed.

0:16.3

Coming up later in this episode, we'll be joined by Ambassador David Pressman, who is

0:20.1

the United States representative to the UN Security Council, and the first-ever director

0:25.5

for war crimes and atrocities on the National Security Council at the White House.

0:29.6

He's going to talk to us about war crimes.

0:31.6

How about that?

0:32.6

I wonder what podcast he thinks he agreed to be on.

0:36.7

The war crimes episode of the West Wing is season three episode five.

0:40.9

It was directed by Alex Graves.

0:42.9

It was written by Aaron Sorkin and the stories by Alison Abner.

0:47.6

This episode first aired on March 20th, 2002.

0:51.9

And for the listeners at home, this is the first topless, risky episode in a long time.

0:58.4

Episode of the podcast, I mean, it's very hot.

1:01.4

It's a very hot day today.

1:03.1

But you have air conditioning, don't you?

1:05.4

Yeah, but it's too loud to put it on while we're recording.

1:08.8

Usually I try and cool off the studio before we start recording, but I didn't get a chance

1:13.8

to do today.

1:14.8

When it gets hot in my office, I usually splash around in the kitty fountain, but it's too

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