Bombshell LIVE! Fake News Edition
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🗓️ 30 June 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A special LIVE episode from the CNAS annual conference. We pour some French 75s and talk to Karen Attiah and Jia Lynn Yang from The Washington Post about national security in a time of distraction. Then we dive into the Modi visit, late night Syria shots, and Defense Department recruiting and personnel issues. We wrap up with questions from the audience and a blast from the past: how not to dress like an Army colonel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Lauren DeYoung Schulman. I'm Radha. I'm Aaron Simpson. And we are here recording live this week from the Center for a New American Security Annual Conference. |
| 0:22.6 | For those who are new to bombshell, we are a bi-weekly podcast on War on the Rocks with the Three Ladies you see on stage, |
| 0:29.7 | unpacking national security and defense issues while debating the best cocktails known to woman. |
| 0:35.1 | Come for the explainers of the week's crises and wonky obsessions, stay for the |
| 0:38.8 | top gun references, and guests that outshine us on every episode, as you see. For the first time, |
| 0:45.2 | we are so excited to have a live studio audience, currently being fed the most excellent rubber |
| 0:50.2 | chicken and steamed vegetables on this side of the Potomac. So to wash it down, Erin, what are we drinking this week? |
| 0:57.0 | We are drinking one of my all-time favorite cocktails of French 75. |
| 1:01.0 | It's a champagne cocktail, which we thought was fitting for summer. |
| 1:04.0 | Frankly, it's fitting for any occasion, in my opinion. |
| 1:07.0 | It's a delicious combination of champagne, gin, lemon juice, and sugar. |
| 1:12.2 | And befitting this audience, the name is a reference to the French 75-millimeter field gun. |
| 1:17.0 | Because when you drink one, it's like getting hit with an artillery show. |
| 1:19.9 | Okay, Michelle, they're watered down, I swear, they're not that bad. |
| 1:23.8 | But we'll pour you one later if you would like one. |
| 1:25.6 | Yep. |
| 1:26.9 | As usual, we have a lot to talk about, and starting with our very special guests from the Washington Post, |
| 1:31.3 | who's the co-sponsor for today's event with CNAS. |
| 1:34.3 | We have Karen Atiyah and Gia Lin-Yang, who are joining us for discussion of national security |
| 1:39.3 | journalism in a time of distraction. |
| 1:42.3 | Then we followed up by a few minutes of our usual segments on keeping up foreign relations and White House mayhem. And then we'll do a few fan favorites and post favorites. And maybe if we have time, take a couple questions from the audience. So let's start by introducing our guests. Karen Attea, who's sitting here next to Aaron, is the Global Opinions Editor at the Washington Post, a role she started last spring. |
| 2:01.9 | Before joining the Post in 2014, Karen was a social media consultant for the World Bank and a freelance reporter for the AP. |
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