Assassinations in Iran & Biden’s foreign policy team
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist, what Biden’s national security team tells us about his foreign policy, protests over police brutality in France, infighting at the UN Human Rights Council, China picking (Twitter) fights, a soccer legend dying and Cher helping a lonely elephant find friends. Then Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy joins to talk Iran, Biden’s cabinet and how to make a more progressive foreign policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Podsave the World, I'm Tommy Vitore. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.5 | Ben, we're back in lockdown. |
| 0:17.1 | Thank you LA County for your masterful leadership during this COVID time. |
| 0:21.9 | Like, I understand all the very cold places who are dealing with, you know, everything |
| 0:28.1 | going indoors. |
| 0:29.1 | But this is LA. |
| 0:30.1 | Okay, it's like 15 in the morning, then it's 70 in the middle of the day. |
| 0:34.0 | What's our excuse for sucking at this? |
| 0:35.6 | I don't get it. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, it's, it's, that, that has occurred to me. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, it raises a question once again, why restaurants were open for so long, you know, |
| 0:46.0 | it's such capacity, that seemed to have something to do with this. |
| 0:48.8 | I would walk down the street and see all these people in like packed restaurants and think |
| 0:51.8 | like, this is not going to end well. |
| 0:54.0 | And, and it didn't. |
| 0:55.0 | And so yeah, that uneven kind of response in terms of what's open and what's closed has |
| 0:59.7 | been a little frustrating. |
| 1:01.0 | For those wondering why we're annoyed right now, unless Angelus, you are like not allowed |
| 1:05.2 | to hang out in a backyard with someone outside of your household, but you can go to a |
| 1:09.6 | batting cage, a mini golf course, or was the other one, a go-kart race at 50% capacity |
| 1:16.7 | or a 20% capacity indoor mall. |
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