Evan Gershkovich's Year in Captivity and Why We'll Miss Joe Lieberman

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It’s been one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested and imprisoned in Russia by Vladimir Putin, and the world shouldn't forget him. Plus, Sen, Joe Lieberman dies at age 82, leaving a legacy as a foreign-policy hawk that is hard to find among Democrats today. He was also a leader of the No Labels third-party movement. Is that now unlikely in 2024? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Right now. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:30.0	Former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman dies at age 82,
0:35.0	leaving a legacy with lessons for today's politics.
0:38.6	His death also raises questions
0:40.8	about the future of the No label's third party movement in
0:44.0	2024 where Joe Lieberman was a leader in trying to find an alternative to
0:49.2	Joe Biden and Donald Trump and what about Robert F.. Kennedy Jr's choice of a running mate this week?
0:55.4	Does Nicole Shanahan help his candidacy or hurt one of the other two candidates?
1:01.1	Plus Friday marks, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Grishkovich's year in captivity in Russia
1:07.2	on false charges of espionage. Why is Vladimir Putin refusing to let him go.
1:13.0	Welcome, I'm Paul Geego with the Wall Street Journal opinion page.
1:16.7	I'm here with my colleagues Kim Strassal and Bill McGurnen
1:19.7	our daily Potomac Watch podcast.
1:22.1	Let's start with Joe Lieberman who died Wednesday after a fall,
1:25.3	a senator for 24 years, the first Jewish candidate, on a major party national ticket as Al Gore's
1:32.2	running mate in 2000 came within a whisker of becoming
1:36.0	Vice President in that race. As a personal remembrance, I first met him in 1988
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