Former Top Clinton, Biden Adviser on Challenges Facing America

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell has a wide-ranging conversation with Jake Sullivan, former senior policy adviser on Secretary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. They discuss key lessons learned from Russia's 2016 election interference, the Obama administration's response, and how future political leaders should be thinking about the presidency. Sullivan, who was deeply involved in brokering the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, discusses the Trump administration's opportunities for dialogue with Tehran, and shares his views on North Korea, Russia and other foreign policy challenges facing the United States.

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0:07.5	I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute
0:12.8	rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-blooded killers you
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0:29.0	This is the Intelligence Matters Podcast with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:33.8	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:37.9	There are moves by senior leaders, including people like Mitch McConnell to shred norms
0:44.0	that have held up our democratic system, our checks and balances, have kept everything
0:50.2	in some equipoids.
0:51.8	My experience in Washington is that once norms start to unravel, it is very hard to,
0:56.2	I shall always say, unravel them.
0:59.9	President Trump and his foreign policy, how would you assess his, his and his administration's
1:04.8	approach to the world?
1:06.0	He has unwound all of our efforts to rally the world to solve big problems, whether it's
1:11.4	the Iran nuclear program or Paris climate agreement.
1:14.8	He's missed the thing that has really distinguished the United States, which is this idea that
1:19.4	we can be better safe and stronger when others are better safe and stronger.
1:27.2	Jake Sullivan is currently a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and a lecturer at
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