A fist bump to remember
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben cover President Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, explain why 9/11 families are furious at Donald Trump, discuss what can happen internationally on climate change without US action, the latest from Sri Lanka, why the Prime Minister of Italy may resign, then we laugh at Fox News’s foreign coverage, Mike Pompeo’s presidential ambitions, a French mustard shortage and what Boris Johnson’s successors think about him. Finally, Tommy is joined by Politico’s Christopher Miller to discuss the latest news from Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome back to Potts' Avalon Tommy Vitor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.8 | Ben, great to see you. |
| 0:15.5 | Good to be here. |
| 0:16.5 | I did notice that this is a tough week for former deputy national security advisors. |
| 0:21.5 | Matthew Potts. |
| 0:22.8 | Matthew Potts. |
| 0:23.8 | Matthew Potts, your Trump's deputy national security advisor. |
| 0:25.9 | It's a close knit fraternity hauled up to the hill, the testify in front of the Jan 6th committee. |
| 0:30.3 | I didn't know if you had a comment on behalf of your former job title sort of. |
| 0:35.3 | You know, Potten just one of these guys who was always like both Trump adjacent and committee |
| 0:40.9 | to save America adjacent. |
| 0:42.2 | Very much so. |
| 0:43.2 | But managed to stay there for all four years until he principally resigned after January 6th. |
| 0:50.8 | So glad he did that, glad he presumably is going to help pin this on Trump. |
| 0:58.1 | But let's not forget something that makes him stick around. |
| 1:01.8 | As Tim Miller talked about in Potts' America, right? |
| 1:03.9 | Like the rationalizations had kept pondering that gig till the violent insurrection need |
| 1:11.1 | to be part of the full picture. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, I give him some credit for walking. |
| 1:14.6 | I give him credit. |
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