Dems in Congress push for a more progressive foreign policy
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🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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A leadership fight in Congress that could help make the Democratic Party’s foreign policy more progressive. A far-right nationalist wins reelection in Poland. How other countries are reopening schools during COVID. Egypt cracks down on press freedom. China, the NBA and why ESPN suspended a reporter. Turkey tries to silence critics abroad. China sanctions Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and may sign a strategic deal with Iran. And the US keeps its border closed.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Paz de The World, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Then it's great to see you, but I do want listeners to know that I've attached an opposition |
| 0:18.9 | research file about you in the show notes, much like Anthony Fauci, so get ready for |
| 0:24.5 | you to be taken down. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm more focused on our team Tommy. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm going to divide them against each other by circulating different OPPO research to |
| 0:32.2 | each of them about the other. |
| 0:34.0 | Can you imagine being at the White House, circulating OPPO research to like chuck-tod about |
| 0:39.1 | some technocratic nerd over USAID? |
| 0:41.8 | It's so mind-bogglingly stupid. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, so here's the thing. |
| 0:47.4 | This is actually worth, you know, I picture the meeting, right? |
| 0:50.8 | So Trump calls a bunch of people in and yells at them about something he saw Fauci say and |
| 0:56.6 | tells them to deal with it. |
| 0:58.3 | And so imagine like you and I were in hundreds of meetings, right, in like the press secretary's |
| 1:02.1 | office, right? |
| 1:03.1 | But imagine the motley crew of like Stephen Miller and Dan Skivino getting into Kaylee's |
| 1:10.5 | office and hatching this plot to send OPPO research to Axio, something like it's just so |
| 1:21.5 | juvenile. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah, it's like all truncated quotes that they're there for. |
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