Ben Rhodes on the Obama Administration's Wins, Losses and Legacy

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, speaks with host Michael Morell about some of the administration's pivotal policy decisions - including potential missteps - in Syria, Iran, Cuba and Russia. Rhodes explains Obama's calculus in confronting Russia during its 2016 election interference, assesses the administration's response to the conflict in Syria and tells Morell what part of Obama's legacy is most likely to endure. He also shares new anecdotes from his recent memoir, "The World As It Is."

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0:38.3	Where we aired is the government dealt with the Russian meddling as a cyber issue,
0:44.6	but that was only one small piece of this much bigger information war that Russia was
0:49.2	waging.
0:51.9	I feel like we didn't do enough to explain that piece of the puzzle.
0:55.7	We gave people the picture of the cyber effort, the fact of Russia meddling, but we didn't
1:01.6	give a broader picture.
1:04.0	I think it's probably fair to say that you believe that President Trump's approach to the
1:07.8	world is damaging our national security.
1:09.7	That's fair to say.
1:10.7	I think he is basically unraveling the US position in the world that has been built
1:16.8	up over 70 years before our eyes.
1:22.2	Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009
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