Dunking on Erdogan with Enes Kanter

Pod Save the World

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Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Police crack down as protests escalate to new heights in Hong Kong. An explosion involving a nuclear reactor in Russia kills at least a half dozen people. Boris Johnson tries to negotiate a U.S.-U.K. trade deal ahead of Britain’s exit from the European Union. A scary report in the New York Times sheds light on what’s driving the spread of right wing extremism around the globe. And Ben Rhodes shares the story behind his recent reporting for The Atlantic on Aung San Suu Kyi. Then Enes Kanter, a professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics, joins Ben in the studio to talk about human rights and the politics of his home country, Turkey - and why President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put out a warrant for his arrest and banned him from coming home.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to PotSave the World. This is Tommy Vittor.
0:13.0	I'm Ben Rhodes in studio.
0:14.7	Ben, I'm sad that I'm not with you in studio, but I literally just came from the Iowa State fair
0:20.9	and went directly to a different studio here in Des Moines, so I'm a little disgusting,
0:25.9	but I'm having a good time.
0:26.8	Yeah, and we flipped roles here.
0:28.0	Do you get a pork chop on a stick or anything like that?
0:30.1	So I spent the last couple hours watching Mayor Pete, so he spoke, and then he did a gaggle,
0:35.2	and like this world is hard as full right now because he was asked about the go-on heights,
0:39.6	he was asked about cashmere.
0:41.5	I think he was asked about how the US should be supporting protesters in Hong Kong,
0:45.2	so it was a very foreign policy focused gaggle for Mayor Pete at the state fair.
0:49.2	And then I walked around and followed him, talked to him briefly, and I ate a monster pork chop
0:54.4	on a stick on the way out, so I feel great.
0:57.7	But we got a packed show for you.
1:00.0	We're going to talk about the latest on the protests movement in Hong Kong.
1:03.6	We're going to talk about this strange, massive explosion in Russia.
1:07.2	There's a Brexit update.
1:08.7	We are going to fill you all in on the global right wing radicalization machine.
1:13.6	Some Trump policy updates.
1:15.2	Ben, I want to talk a lot about your amazing Burma piece that was in the Atlantic that everyone
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