Episode 904 : Today's News and CNN National Security Expert, Author and Host of "In The Room with Peter Bergen"
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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Peter Bergen is the author or editor of ten books that have been translated into 24 languages, three of which were New York Times bestsellers; the producer of multiple Emmy-nominated documentaries and Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and CNN’s national security analyst. He has held teaching positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
In the Room with Peter Bergen
Each week, listeners are invited to join Peter as he covers topics like the Ukraine War, the Pentagon’s long and schizophrenic relationship with UFOs, a rare peek inside the FBI’s unit that is trying to prevent mass shootings, and a tour of the CIA’s secret museum. He interviews top experts and leaders like U.S. Army General David Petraeus, Jen Easterly, who leads U.S. efforts to prevent cyberattacks, former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, the first-ever woman Afghan ambassador to the U.S. Roya Rahmani, U.S. Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Josh Geltzer, and CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward. An Audible Original.
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| 0:00.0 | And hello and welcome to episode 904 of stand up join me today CNN National Security |
| 0:07.5 | Expert author podcaster and professor the great Peter Bergen joins me to talk about |
| 0:12.5 | his new podcast in the room awesome conversation with Peter coming up that starts at about |
| 0:18.4 | 16 minutes in but it's August 21st it's time to stand up want to wish my parents mom |
| 0:25.2 | and dad chuck and marry happy fifty second wedding anniversary I was just with them over |
| 0:31.2 | the weekend after we dropped able off at college which went very smoothly very successful |
| 0:36.8 | very happy for her not for me but for her very very exciting she's doing great she's |
| 0:43.8 | already making a lot of friends having an awesome time I want to thank everybody who |
| 0:47.2 | reached out to me so many I can't get back to everybody so many folks sent messages |
| 0:51.6 | and put up comments in different places of my posts about dropping a ball of now difficult |
| 0:56.5 | that was sharing advice those of you that have been through it those of you that are going |
| 1:01.0 | through it and of course those of you that someday will go through it stay in the moment |
| 1:05.1 | that's the advice stay in the moment for those of you whose kids are younger or even close |
| 1:10.0 | to leaving stay right there with them when you catch yourself thinking about the future |
| 1:13.8 | and your kids going away or anything bad happen and come right back to the present where |
| 1:17.9 | everything is hopefully okay and that thing you're worried about isn't actually happening |
| 1:23.8 | but yes move in went smoothly they were running late there were a lot of issues with students |
| 1:29.7 | getting unpacked and to their orientation activities on time and Ava was on the 12th floor |
| 1:36.8 | of her dorm which I'm not super excited about but it is what it is and you know you had |
| 1:41.7 | a way for the elevator to bring this huge amount of bags and stuff up to a room and not |
| 1:47.1 | my family oh Val and Ava like that we'll take the stairs and people are like you're |
| 1:52.2 | not going to be able to make it up the stairs and they said watch us and I was like maybe |
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