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Welcome to the Restis Politics with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Anast Campbell.

And we're doing something quite radical here, which is our main episode today is going to be located

in a time and a place.

We're going to bring you right into the heart of the Munich Security Conference.

We're recording it a little bit earlier than we normally would.

But I hope what you'll feel is that it to you a sense of the flavor of international diplomacy.

And then we'll do question time sometime early next week.

Very good.

We've also been really lucky to do some fantastic interviews, and we are being spoilt for choice for leading in the coming weeks.

So we have been talking here to Sarah McBride, this extraordinary

transgender congresswoman from Delaware. We've had a fantastic interview just now with Gavin Newsom,

who I am strongly encouraging to run for it, to go for it and try and get to the White House.

And also Alexander Stubb, the president

of Finland. And we've also got in the can, as it were, coming up soon, Rob Malley, who was

US administration's leading advisor on Iran and also the former German Chancellor, Olaf Schultz.

So we've been spoilt for choice. Sadly, we have not been able to pin down Marco Rubio, but who knows, one day we will.

So this is an episode where we're really going to try to bring you into two things. One of them is just a feeling of what these international conferences are like, what it's like to be here, the kind of things that people are talking about.

But then we're going to get, I think, into the biggest issues, which is what is now happening in the big international relations, particularly between Europe and

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