Ep. 272 — Roberta Jacobson

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Roberta Jacobson is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico until May of 2018. She joins David to discuss the diplomatic tension between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump administration's relationship with the United Nations, her work normalizing relations with Cuba under the Obama administration, and more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Acts Files, with
0:12.3	your host, David Axelrod.
0:14.1	Roberta Jacobson joined our State Department 32 years ago as a young analyst and rose
0:22.2	over the decades through Republican and Democratic administrations to become Assistant Secretary
0:28.1	of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, where she helped negotiate the normalization
0:33.6	of relations with Cuba under the Obama administration and ambassador to Mexico at a very frated
0:41.0	time between our countries.
0:44.2	She's now a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.
0:48.7	And I sat down with her earlier this week, shortly after President Trump spoke to the
0:52.9	UN General Assembly to talk about US relations with Mexico, NAFTA, the situation at the
0:59.9	border, and the state of American diplomacy.
1:05.6	Roberta Jacobson, welcome here and welcome to the Institute of Politics.
1:10.1	We're so happy to have you as a fellow this quarter.
1:14.4	Thank you.
1:15.4	Looking forward to that.
1:16.7	Looking forward to that.
1:18.9	Come from Jersey.
1:19.9	Yeah.
1:20.9	I just did a...
1:21.9	Just had a conversation with Peter Segal, the host of Weight Don't Tell Me, who is another
1:28.9	Jersey guy.
1:29.9	A lot of distinguished alumni.
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