Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy record comes under attack
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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
First, Trump’s trip to India, his new and unqualified Director of National Intelligence, and should Democrats attend AIPAC? Then updates on Sudan and South Sudan, the coronavirus, a fragile peace agreement in Afghanistan, and John Bolton. Finally, Tommy and Ben discuss attacks on Bernie Sanders’ views on Cuba, former leftist leaders in Latin America, and criticism of the CIA, before reflecting on the death of former Egypt President Hosni Mubarak, and the nine years since the Arab Spring began. Then Politico’s Natasha Bertrand joins to explain why new intel chief Richard Grenell has become an issue in Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition case.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to PotSafe World, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben, you're back in another just a horrible place where authoritarians and corruption run rampant. |
| 0:20.3 | Washington DC, how's it going? |
| 0:21.9 | Yeah, a little visit to the swamp here. |
| 0:23.8 | Good, good, although I just saw our former boss for a couple hours, so a brief return to Sanity. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah, the one person I'd actually like to say hi to on this city, but we digress. |
| 0:34.0 | Today on the show, we got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:36.2 | We're going to talk about Trump's trip to India, his new and totally unqualified director of national intelligence. |
| 0:42.5 | Apex, Sudan, the coronavirus, the fragile peace agreement in Afghanistan that we all hope is going to hold. |
| 0:49.0 | And then we wanted to spend some time talking about comments that Bernie Sanders made about Cuba |
| 0:54.3 | and some other leftist leaders in Latin America that are getting a lot of attention right now. |
| 0:59.2 | Some final reflections on Mubarak, Egypt, and the Arab Spring before my interview with Politico's |
| 1:04.4 | Natasha Bertrand about why Rick or Nell, the new DNI has become an issue in WikiLeaks founder |
| 1:10.7 | Julian Assange's extradition case, which is just the craziest story I've heard in a long time, |
| 1:15.2 | so do not miss that. |
| 1:17.1 | Okay, let's start with this India trip. |
| 1:18.8 | President Trump just concluded basically a 36 hour visit to India where he got lots of |
| 1:23.5 | FaceTime with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but appears to have achieved basically nothing. |
| 1:28.9 | He was not able to negotiate a trade deal. |
| 1:31.0 | It doesn't seem like he pushed Modi at all on human rights or his discrimination against Muslims, |
| 1:36.0 | no surprise there, since Trump also discriminates against Muslims. |
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