France is not amused
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben explain why a security agreement between the US, UK and Australia has enraged the French, the latest on elections in Canada and Russia, the assassination of an Iranian scientist, Biden addresses the UN General Assembly, and the Space Force debuts its dress uniform. Then Senator Chris Murphy joins Ben to discuss the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the urgency for filling critical diplomatic positions that Republicans are blocking.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsay TV World, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.8 | Ben, all the way live from Washington, DC. |
| 0:16.5 | Has the blob found you yet? |
| 0:18.0 | Is it like slowly rolling to your studio? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, there's a group of agitated people outside my hotel, you know? |
| 0:24.4 | I have never laughed harder than I did the other day reading that New York Times story about |
| 0:30.5 | members of the DC foreign policy establishment or the blob as you branded them being mad about |
| 0:37.4 | being called the blob. |
| 0:38.8 | It was incredible. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, I mean, it was kind of funny because the article only then precedes the quote people |
| 0:45.4 | who I think would largely be perceived as a part of the blob. |
| 0:49.2 | And I saw some people kind of complaining about that, like, why aren't there other voices, |
| 0:52.9 | but I think that was kind of her point. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.9 | Just to show how agitated the blob gets by, I mean, the best is the guy who's lamenting, |
| 1:03.0 | the hurt feelings of the blob and his title is the Henry A Kissinger Distinguished Something |
| 1:08.1 | or other, you know? |
| 1:09.1 | And it's like, well, the Henry A Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs |
| 1:12.7 | at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah. |
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