Exclusive Interview: Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Adviser

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🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jake Sullivan is the president-elect's top national security adviser. He told NPR's Scott Detrow that he is worried that a lack of communication from top Trump officials could jeopardize a safe transition.

Sullivan also emphasized that Americans' economic well-being will be a central tenet of Joe Biden's foreign policy. Although he served in the Obama administration, Sullivan now feels that it didn't do enough to tie foreign policy to domestic concerns.

This episode: political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben and political correspondent Scott Detrow.

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Produced by Barton Girdwood and Lexie Schapitl.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.1	I'm Danielle Kurtz-Layden.
0:07.3	I cover politics.
0:08.3	And I'm Scott Detro.
0:09.4	I cover the Biden transition.
0:11.2	And Scott.
0:12.2	Yes.
0:13.2	Why are you here?
0:14.2	You were supposed to be on vacation this week, but as I understand it, duty calls, right?
0:18.9	You know, one upside of not traveling anywhere is it's easy to adapt if needed.
0:23.8	I had been hoping to interview Joe Biden's incoming national security advisor, Jake Sullivan,
0:30.4	for a while now.
0:31.4	There are a couple big picture policy questions that I've wanted to talk to him about.
0:36.0	There's been a lot of news lately with these roadblocks that the Biden transition says.
0:41.0	The Trump administration is putting up when it comes to meetings specifically with the Department
0:45.6	of Defense.
0:46.6	And it's his first broadcast interview since he was appointed to this job.
0:52.2	We did talk about a lot of important newsy topics, but that is not exactly how the interview
0:56.8	immediately started.
0:58.0	Hey, how are you?
0:59.0	I'm good.
1:00.0	How are you?
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