Biden Confronts Six Global Hotspots
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bill takes a trip around the world's hot spots with one of the most experienced and thoughtful progressive foreign policy analysts, Joe Cirincione. Cirincione is the former long-time president of The Ploughshares Fund, a world leader on fighting nuclear proliferation and encouraging nuclear disarmament. Cirincione is now a foreign affairs advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders and a Distinguished Fellow as the Quincy Institute.
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| 1:03.4 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, in a busy six months so far, President Biden has devoted most of his time and attention to domestic issues, COVID-19, infrastructure, voting rights, minimum wage, student debt, gun safety, and other priorities. |
| 1:18.6 | But you know, foreign policy is never far behind. |
| 1:21.6 | Now especially, the President faces several difficult foreign policy challenges, restoring relations with our allies, |
| 1:29.8 | ending the war in Afghanistan, rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, and getting back into the Paris Climate |
| 1:36.6 | Accord, standing up to Vladimir Putin and an ever more aggressive China, and dealing with the |
| 1:43.4 | ever-present threat of nuclear weapons. |
| 1:46.5 | So today, for our first look on the bill press pod on how Biden's doing on the foreign policy |
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