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Power Play
POLITICO
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, host Anne McElvoy asks Jane Hartley, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, about the future of the transatlantic "special relationship."
Hartley discussed the future of U.S.-U.K. relations in light of the International Criminal Court seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; revealed her surprise at the snap U.K. election called for July 4; and as a close ally of President Biden, explains why his age is an asset, not a problem.
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| 0:00.0 | Britain's general election is officially on as a rain-drenched Prime Minister Rishizi Sunak |
| 0:08.3 | announced last week. |
| 0:09.3 | Earlier today I spoke with his majesty the King to request the dissolution of Parliament. |
| 0:14.8 | The King has granted this request and we will have a general election on the 4th of July. |
| 0:20.5 | Even keen political watches in Westminster were taken by surprise. |
| 0:25.0 | As US Ambassador to the UK, it's Jane Hartley's job to keep her finger on the transatlantic |
| 0:31.6 | pulse and to sustain the deep roots of a wartime |
| 0:35.4 | alliance through thick and thin of relations between prime ministers and |
| 0:39.8 | presidents through military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan to the choppy aftermath of the Brexit vote. |
| 0:47.0 | She's also a veteran of the D.C. scene who started out in the White House in Jimmy Carter's |
| 0:52.1 | administration and she's a personal friend of the President |
| 0:56.1 | Joe Biden. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome to Power Play, Politico's weekly podcast, where we talk to some of the most influential |
| 1:06.8 | people on either side of the Atlantic. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Anne McElvoy, and this week the interview comes to you from Winfield House the |
| 1:14.8 | Ambassador's famously elegant pad in Regents Park in Central London. |
| 1:19.7 | Ambassador Hartley, welcome to Powerplay. |
| 1:22.0 | Thrilled to be here. |
| 1:24.4 | You've been Ambassador exactly two years |
| 1:26.6 | in these beautiful surroundings |
| 1:28.2 | here in Winfield House. |
| 1:29.6 | He was sworn in, just to remind you, |
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