Everything Mike Pompeo touches turns to sh*t
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🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Democrats sound the alarm about foreign election interference. Experts say Israel and the US are responsible for mysterious explosions across Iran. Mike Pompeo uses taxpayer dollars to run for President. A fire on a US Navy ship has major implications. Lebanon’s economy nears collapse. The UAE launched a space craft. The White House threatens to prevent 92 million Chinese citizens from entering the US. A coronavirus update and some baseball news. Then Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy advisor Matt Duss joins to talk about lessons from the 2020 campaign and how to push for a smarter, more progressive foreign policy.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potts' Avalor on Tommy Dittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben, we have a very fun show today. |
| 0:17.0 | We got a lot going on. |
| 0:17.9 | We're going to talk about why Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress |
| 0:21.7 | are really sounding the alarm about foreign election interference. |
| 0:25.6 | Talk about this covert, ongoing, massive sabotage campaign being waged against Iran. |
| 0:31.9 | Checking on our buddy Mike Pompeo's, see what he's up to, it seems like he's in a bit of trouble. |
| 0:36.2 | We'll talk about why Navy ships are burning and what that means. |
| 0:38.9 | We'll talk about Lebanon's economy, how it's cratering. |
| 0:42.3 | And then our guest today is Matt Duss. |
| 0:45.3 | He is a top foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders. |
| 0:49.6 | He's a super smart, progressive guy. |
| 0:52.9 | They've been doing amazing work in that office on U.S. policy towards Yemen in the Middle East. |
| 0:58.9 | We'll talk about what's happening in Congress lessons from the Bernie campaign |
| 1:02.3 | and how progressives can push U.S. foreign policy in a better direction. |
| 1:06.3 | It was a great conversation. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm excited for you guys to hear from that. |
| 1:09.4 | Two quick things we'll get to the news. |
| 1:10.8 | So, then exciting news. |
| 1:13.5 | Over the last year, 25,000 people have contributed to the crooked media GetMitch or DieTryingFund to flip the Senate, |
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