Biden's controversial pick to run the Pentagon

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Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk through Joe Biden’s decision to nominate General Lloyd Austin for Secretary of Defense, a new wealth tax in Argentina, the mass vaccination campaign underway in the UK, reporting on how a Chinese spy developed ties to California politicians, a former Israeli official’s disclosures about space aliens, new Olympic sports, and more. Then Ben interviews French activist Assa Traoré about the fight for racial justice and changes to policing in France and her work as the leader of the Committee for Justice and Truth for Adama.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.8	Welcome back to Potsay the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.7	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Here we are, Ben.
0:15.2	Back in lockdown, officially.
0:16.7	I'm not going to complain about lockdown this time.
0:19.1	So I don't want people to think that I'm being a baby about it.
0:22.7	Actually, we have some good news, I think,
0:25.6	on the pandemic later in the show.
0:27.1	So hopefully that will bring everybody's spirits up.
0:29.2	That's a goal today, Ben.
0:30.2	We're going to bring up spirits with them.
0:32.0	There's light at the end of the tunnel.
0:33.6	Just like the Trump crisis.
0:34.4	Right at the end of the tunnel.
0:35.8	So we got a lot going on today.
0:37.6	We have a Secretary of Defense nomination.
0:40.5	We have a threat by President Trump to veto money for the troops.
0:44.4	We're going to talk about whether or not Elizabeth Warren
0:47.2	is secretly running Argentina.
0:48.7	I'll explain.
0:49.7	Svillian casualties in Afghanistan.
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