Blundering Towards War. The Reporters' Roundtable for Jan 3
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🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Bill breaks down Iran/Iraq with Sudeep Reddy, Managing Editor, Politico, Addy Baird, Congressional Reporter for BuzzFeed News and Lauren Burke, writer for Black Press USA. Plus More damning details on Ukraine and Dems 2020, Pelosi vs. McConnell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome. Welcome to this week's roundtable, where we gather |
| 0:12.2 | three or four Washington's hardworking journalists, look back on the news of the week. |
| 0:17.9 | Well, with Congress and the president out of town, you'd expect things to slow down. But, ha-ha, not this week. Well, with Congress and the president out of town, you'd expect things to slow down. But, |
| 0:22.2 | ha-ha, not this week. Suddenly, it looks like we could be on the brink of a new war in the Middle East, |
| 0:29.5 | with eerie reminders of the Iran hostage crisis. Iran-backed protesters stormed the U.S. Embassy in |
| 0:35.7 | Baghdad, and then in retaliation on January 2nd, the |
| 0:40.2 | United States drone-fired missile killed the leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard who had just |
| 0:46.3 | arrived in Baghdad. Iran is expected to strike back. The question is how and how soon. Meanwhile, on another foreign policy front, |
| 0:57.5 | North Korea's Kim Jong-moon announced that he was tired of playing Mr. Nice Guy with Donald Trump |
| 1:02.5 | and threatened a major new long-range missile launch. Back home on the 2020 front, another |
| 1:09.5 | Democrat dropped out, and only five Democrats have qualified so far for next Tuesday's debate. |
| 1:16.1 | Wow, here to try to make some sense of it all. |
| 1:19.1 | Lauren Burke rejoining us, writer for Black Press USA. |
| 1:23.3 | Hi, Lauren. |
| 1:23.9 | How are you? |
| 1:24.4 | Nice to see you. |
| 1:25.1 | Nice seeing you. |
| 1:26.6 | Sudeep Reddy here joining us for the first time, managing editor of Politico. Hi, Sudip. Hi, Bill. Good to see you. And Addie Baird back again, congressional correspondent for BuzzFeed. Hello, Addy. Hi, Bill. Welcome to all of you. And happy New Year to all of you and to all of our listeners as well so let's just |
| 1:46.8 | dive right in um i think we have to accept up front that none of us by the way this is friday morning |
| 1:54.6 | january 3rd just a little after 830 a.m so that's where we're addressing what's happened so far this week. And things could |
| 2:02.7 | change by the minute. But I started to say none of us are really experts on the foreign East, |
| 2:08.1 | but what do we make of what's happening in Iran? Could this really trigger a war, a new war in the Middle East? |
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