Fmr. Def. Sec. William Cohen talks Russia, China and Asteroids

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🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In his new book, Final Strike, Former Defense Secretary William Cohen writes about what would happen if an asteroid threatened mankind.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:04.6	Meet the press.
0:06.1	Meet the press.
0:09.1	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:11.4	My guest today is William Cohen.
0:13.4	Now he's got a resume that can have us talk about all sorts of interesting topics that
0:18.5	are current events today.
0:19.5	He was a defense secretary in the Bill Clinton until 2001, and that role he had to deal
0:22.8	with.
0:23.8	A lot of challenges that we're dealing with today.
0:25.3	Sexual harassment and military.
0:27.0	Gay rights, transgender rights, hostility with North Korea.
0:30.9	Before he ran the defense department, Cohen was a Republican senator from Maine who
0:35.7	was one of these.
0:36.7	Now, I think they're extinct species.
0:38.9	I used to say they're endangered species, but we used to call them moderate Republicans
0:42.4	in New England.
0:43.4	I guess Susan Collins would say that there is still one left, and she is right.
0:49.2	But he's also a novelist.
0:50.2	In 1988, Washington monthly wrote that Cohen, I messed that up.
0:55.6	Sorry.
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