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The Al Franken Podcast

31: Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice Talks Foreign Policy Successes and Failures

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Al and Rice discuss how immensely consequential decisions are made in real time. Sometimes you get it right. Sometimes you don't. And how you deal with tragic mistakes but have to keep on going.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We've got a great one today, you know, for a change. And that's because

0:10.3

Susan Rice is with us, former national security advisor to President Obama. And before that,

0:17.6

his ambassador to the United Nations. Also, she served as assistant secretary of state

0:23.7

covering Africa during the Clinton administration, basically one of the most experienced,

0:30.3

knowledgeable and respected members of our nation's foreign policy brain trust. And she's

0:36.9

written a memoir, Tough Love, My Story of the

0:41.8

Things Worth Fighting for.

0:44.1

And apparently, one of the things worth fighting for is the right of the National Security

0:50.2

Advisor to commandeer the top floor of a Peruvian nightclub and dance like a fiend through

0:58.6

the night to R&B and hip-hop with the rest of the president's traveling staff all while

1:05.5

drinking Pisco Sowers.

1:09.7

Indeed, one of the things worth fighting for.

1:12.5

That was on page 457.

1:15.1

I read the damn book.

1:16.2

I read the whole book.

1:17.5

God bless you, Al.

1:18.7

Thank you.

1:19.4

And I really enjoyed it.

1:20.5

Thank you.

1:21.1

You really get the sense of how foreign policy, you know, has to be made in real time.

1:26.8

Yeah.

1:27.4

Well, at least how it used to be made in real time.

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