54: Deconstructed
The 45th
Audioboom Studios
4.5 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
April 24, 2018 / Rabia chats with guests Wajahat Ali and Mehdi Hasan about first ladies, the DNC lawsuit, North Korea, and Syria.
Today’s episode is sponsored by The Economist.
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| 0:00.0 | The There's the big board, the 20 electoral votes from the state of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:20.5 | We just got new metrics in. The inauguration of a president |
| 0:25.0 | celebrates a peaceful transition of power |
| 0:28.0 | engineered by the American voters. |
| 0:30.0 | This is your life now. |
| 0:32.0 | This is our election now. This is us. This is our country. It's real. Hi and |
| 0:45.0 | this is Robia Chaudhary and this week I am going to be hosting alone. I'll be manning the chip by myself |
| 0:52.0 | although I have some amazing guests to help navigate the waters. |
| 0:56.1 | My co-host and partner in crime, Susan Simpson, Intrepid reporter investigator, is out solving another unsolved mystery, conviction which is you know for those of you who follow us in our other lives we do on the show undisclosed |
| 1:09.4 | so good luck to her and hopefully she'll be back next week. |
| 1:13.0 | But this week I've got two amazing guests on and first I want to start by welcoming back |
| 1:17.4 | with Jahat Ali. |
| 1:18.6 | Hey, what Jahat? |
| 1:20.4 | Hey, hey, and I miss Susan Anti. |
| 1:22.2 | Hopefully she comes back soon. |
| 1:24.0 | Who's not going to kick your ass. |
| 1:25.3 | But let me remind folks who you are, |
| 1:26.8 | with Jahat Ali is a journalist, writer, lawyer, |
| 1:29.5 | an award-winning playwright. |
| 1:30.8 | He is a TV host, and he has been a consultant for the U.S. State Department, |
| 1:34.8 | which I have actually helped launch Al Jazeera America Network as co-host of Al Jazeera |
| 1:38.4 | America's The Stream, which was a great show. I used to love that. And it extended the conversation to social media and beyond. |
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