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Welcome back to PodSafe the World, I'm Tommy Vitor.

I'm Ben Rhodes.

Ben, a lot going on this week.

We just wrapped up a fantastic interview with our guest today, Roology Breel.

She is a foreign policy analyst and author.

You've probably seen her on TV and it was really great to

talk with her about this agreement that was announced last week between the US,

Israel and the United Arab Emirates because I think there's a lot more

to be discussed than what's been covered so far.

We're going to cover a lot today.

So there's this massive Senate Intelligence Committee report that just dropped

about Russian interference in the 2016 election that we've been combing through.

We've got some updates on the election in Belarus, protests in Thailand,

a diplomatic humiliation for the US at the UN.

Check in on Lebanon, Portugal, Spain and cover some reports that Iran was also paying the Taliban

downies to kill US troops, very troubling stuff.

And then Ben, I want to ask you about why officials were talking shit about

Matthew Pottenger, the deputy national security advisor.

So that's a fun one.

Also, Ben, just curious for you, why do you think you have not just rented

but like established residency in the heads of a lot of like very senior officials

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