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Welcome back to Pazza, the world's Sistami V Tor.

And I am Ben Rhodes.

Then it's kind of a running joke that every week I like sincerely say that it's a packed show,

but today was kind of a whole other level.

And so I am so excited to get to record this conversation with you because

it was, wow.

Yeah, we're in another dimension now, yeah.

Yeah, so you're in DC right now.

You're at the heart of the matter.

Are you getting dinner with John Bolton tonight?

Is that accurate?

Well, you know, he was texting me to tell me that he resigned instead of being fired.

But that's about it.

An important distinction.

So of course, we're going to cover John Bolton's firing.

We're going to talk about Trump's sleepover party with the Taliban at Camp David.

I'll talk about some reports that the US had to extract a spy out of Russia

who have been put at risk, some Brexit updates, some Hong Kong updates.

The Israeli elections are fast approaching and there's a lot happening there,

including Baby Jared Kushner becoming the Middle East peace envoy.

So we'll unpack that brilliant idea.

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