8 Years in the Situation Room with Ben Rhodes
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Tommy and Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes discuss Ben’s career path, Obama’s Cairo speech, the damage Trump is doing, counterterrorism, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, Wikileaks, Snowden, Israel, Syria and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Pod Save the World, the show where I try to bring you behind the scenes |
| 0:08.6 | to the White House Foreign Policy decision making process by interviewing some of the people |
| 0:12.6 | I worked with along the way. |
| 0:14.3 | Today's a very special episode for me interview a guy named Ben Rhodes, his deputy national |
| 0:19.0 | security adviser for strategic communications, he was also my office mate, and he was probably |
| 0:24.4 | one of the closest advisors on foreign policy for President Obama period for eight years. |
| 0:29.2 | He was a fascinating conversation, Ben led the talks with Cuba about reestablishing diplomatic |
| 0:35.1 | relations, he was in all the big meetings and all the big decisions along the way, I think |
| 0:39.3 | you're really going to enjoy it. |
| 0:42.8 | Welcome to Pod Save the World. |
| 0:44.0 | My guest today is Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:46.1 | I believe I should start with the disclosure that I worked for Ben. |
| 0:49.4 | We actually shared an office and I sat like 10 feet away from him, so he heard me yell |
| 0:53.0 | at reporters generally be a pain in the ass to people. |
| 0:57.1 | For this interview might sound a little bit more like a couple guys telling old war stories |
| 1:00.5 | who had cool jobs one day, but Ben was the deputy national security adviser for strategic |
| 1:04.7 | communications at the White House and a speech writer for President Obama, so thank you |
| 1:08.7 | Ben for being here. |
| 1:09.7 | Good to be here. |
| 1:10.7 | My first post-White House media appearance. |
| 1:12.5 | This is huge. |
| 1:13.5 | This is huge for me. |
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