Assange arrested, Bernie's foreign policy, Bowe Bergdahl and Afghanistan

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Bernie's foreign policy, potential war with Iran and the arrest of Chinese scholars. Then J Street's Yael Patir explains the state of liberal political parties in Israel. Then author and Army veteran Matt Farwell joins to discuss Bowe Bergdahl and the war in Afghanistan.

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0:00.0	What can I say of the world?
0:12.1	We have a packed show for you today.
0:14.2	We got Julian Assange's arrest.
0:16.0	The FBI, expelling Chinese scholars, Gail Patir of J Street will dial in from Israel to
0:21.7	talk about the state of progressive political parties in Israel.
0:25.2	We got Bernie's foreign policy vision, the Trump administration's potential pretext to
0:29.4	attack Iran, upcoming elections, and then a conversation about Bo Bergdahl and Afghanistan
0:35.6	with author Nat Farwell, Ben Alakoyan on today.
0:39.2	Yeah, wow.
0:40.2	I decided to buckle up.
0:41.2	Well, those.
0:42.2	Here we go.
0:43.2	So I do think the lead story the last week is that Ecuador has booted with the lead
0:49.0	founder Julian Assange out of its embassy in London after allowing him to have asylum
0:53.2	for seven years.
0:54.2	Assange was arrested by British authorities.
0:56.6	Luckily, he's going to be extradited to the US to face charges that he worked with Chelsea
1:00.7	Manning to crack a password on a DOD computer network.
1:05.5	We all know what Wigileek says.
1:07.0	They published millions of classified documents.
1:09.5	We all, of course, remember them, hopefully releasing the DNC and Podesta emails back in
1:13.6	2016.
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