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Biden versus Putin

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Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.825.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about what they are watching for in the Israeli elections, why Republicans are stalling the confirmation of a key Department of Defense official, the race for global vaccine distribution, Vladimir Putin challenging Joe Biden to a debate, a dramatic US-China summit in Alaska, proposed restrictions on protest in the UK, President Biden's position on drug eradication in Latin America and marijuana use in DC. Then Tommy talks to Canadian Member of Parliament and the leader of the New Democratic Party Jagmeet Singh about progressive politics in Canada and the US-Canada relationship.


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0:00.0

Welcome back to Pazet the world. I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Ben happy middle

0:15.8

March madness. I hope I hope your brackets doing better than one former president.

0:22.2

Barack Obama who decided to release his who is just toast. Well he does the same thing.

0:29.0

He's done the same thing a lot of years where he picks all the number one seeds. You got

0:31.9

the final four, which I'll chalk. Yeah. I mean, which sometimes, you know, ends up being

0:36.1

the smart play, but not this year. No, this year was crazy. And look, my, I think everyone's

0:40.9

bracket is a disaster because the college basketball season didn't really happen. And so

0:45.0

a new nobody knew how to predict already difficult games to predict. But you know, Illinois

0:49.2

and the final, that's tough. That's hard to recover from. Anyway, no one listening to

0:53.2

the show is here for this cover. Yeah. Yeah. Check out Jason Concepcion. Take the best

0:59.9

new podcast on the internet. That's exactly right. So here's what we're going to cover

1:04.2

today. So Israeli voters are are going to the polls again today. We'll talk about that.

1:10.2

The stakes of the Biden administration's personnel fight the happening right now in

1:14.3

the Senate. Vaccine inequality, baby happening debates with Russia and the US more protest

1:20.5

in the UK, hope for a ceasefire in Yemen, Joe Biden and the war on drugs. And then some

1:25.5

updates out of Myanmar, a tense meeting between the US and Chinese officials. And then we'll

1:30.8

check in on Prince Harry because you're, you know, we have our royal correspondent here.

1:34.6

And I figured I have to ask you. And then world does will hear my interview with jug meet

1:40.2

sing. He's a member of the Canadian parliament. And he's a leader of Canada's new Democratic

1:45.3

party. Ben, I know you're like actual real life friends with Justin Trudeau and that he

1:50.7

in and jug meet our political rivals. But I have to admit, this was like the most fun

1:54.6

interview I've done in a while. We talked last Friday. I felt like we could have seamlessly

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