Bloomberg’s foreign policy and the global economy gets the coronavirus

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Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mike Bloomberg’s foreign policy record and platform. How some 2020 candidates failed a foreign policy quiz. The humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria. The latest on the coronavirus and how Senator Tom Cotton is spreading disinformation. The Koch brothers funding foreign policy think tanks…for good? Mike Pompeo speaks at the Munich Security Summit and headlines about Afghanistan, Iran and John Bolton. Then Ben talks with Paris Climate Accords architect Christiana Figueres.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Pots' Day of the World. I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.5	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.5	Ben.
0:14.4	Good to see you.
0:15.1	Good to be, you're man.
0:15.8	On the pod today,
0:17.1	we're going to talk about Mike Bloomberg's foreign policy record.
0:19.7	We've talked a lot about the other candidates.
0:22.2	Let's take it to Mike's record.
0:23.8	We're going to talk about presidential candidate foreign policy trivia
0:26.8	and how big a deal it is.
0:28.0	The humanitarian crisis in Northwest Syria, which is a very big deal.
0:31.6	The latest on the coronavirus and why some right wingers are spreading conspiracy theories
0:36.3	why the Koch brothers are supporting foreign policy think tanks that we like,
0:39.6	which is a weird feeling.
0:41.0	News from Munich.
0:42.5	Quick headlines about Afghanistan, Iran,
0:44.3	John Bolton, and then Ben, you did the interview today.
0:46.3	What would you guys talk about?
0:47.2	So I talked to Cristiano Figueroz, who was the lead UN kind of architect of the Paris Agreement.
0:53.2	She was responsible for hurting all the cats.
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