Fiona Hill

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

How does a miner's daughter from Bishop Auckland in County Durham end up in the White House? Whilst her community was small, a combination of luck, opportunity and sharp intellect led Fiona Hill to Russia, opening her eyes to our shared human experience and deepening her geopolitical understanding. Hill's diplomatic qualities helped her work under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Then in the first quarter of 2017 Hill was appointed by President Trump to his National Security Council. Two years later she would testify in the impeachment inquiry against him. Her book, There Is Nothing for You Here is out now.

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0:31.7	This is a global original podcast.
0:42.0	Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed to let me spend more time with interesting people than is ordinarily available in a brief radio program slot.
0:48.5	And this week's guest certainly fits into that category.
0:51.6	Fiona Hill is a British American foreign affairs specialist and academic.
0:56.1	She was a security advisor in Donald Trump's White House. And as you will discover in her new book,
1:02.2	there is nothing for you here finding opportunity in the 21st century. She's also possessed of a life story that is,
1:09.1	well, it's nothing if not unlikely. The journey from
1:11.5	a coal miner's daughter in County Durham right through to the, it's usually a figure of
1:17.4	speech, the corridors of power, but in this case it's probably a bit of an understatement is,
1:21.6	well, it's remarkable to say the least. So I'll begin, if I may, Fiona, by asking how
1:26.0	comfortable you are with people focusing on the sort of, is it, it's not quite rags to riches in material terms, but it's certainly a path that's only been trodden once so far in history.
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