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Stay Tuned with Preet

Barr Testimony & Accidental Presidents (with Jared Cohen)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Barr Testimony & Accidental Presidents," host Preet Bharara shares his thoughts on Bob Mueller's letter and Bill Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jared Cohen, the CEO of Google’s ideas incubator Jigsaw, joins Preet to discuss his new book, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America. Bonus clips from the interview are available for members of the CAFE Insider community Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Cafe, welcome to stay tuned. I'm Pete Barar. Typically a vice president is chosen

1:05.3

to win a state, balance the ticket, appease a constituency. As you pointed out, historically

1:10.5

there's no evidence that it does any of those things. You're incentivized as the party's

1:14.7

nominee to choose somebody who is sufficiently boring that they won't upstage you, but

1:20.0

not so boring and problematic that they're going to embarrass you. So you basically want

1:24.2

a sort of JV version of yourself. My problem with that is I don't want the JV version

1:30.5

of the party's nominee potentially one heartbeat away from the presidency. That's Jared Cohen.

1:38.0

He's the CEO of Jigsaw, a Google ideas incubator. He also served in the State Department as

1:43.3

an advisor to Condoleezza Rice and later Hillary Clinton. He's now out with his fourth

1:48.2

book, accidental presidents. And Jared's still a few years away from turning 40. Anyway,

1:53.9

I got over all that. And we spoke about how history can be changed by a heartbeat and

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