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The Bill Bennett Show

Helsinki Happened - Now What?

The Bill Bennett Show

Bill Bennett

Government, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Bill welcomes Joel Farkas, director of the American Strategy Group to get his thoughts on Pres.Trump's next move post Helsinki. John Yoo talks Helsinki and gives his thoughts on the Kavanaugh nomination. Gordon Chang also reviewed the President's performance at Helsinki and provided insight on the larger global impact. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show. It's the podcast that helps you translate Trump.

0:05.4

Lots to translate today folks. Gordon Chang will join us. A lot has happened

0:09.9

since the North Korean summit. We'll see where things stand.

0:13.0

We'll also get Joel Farkas.

0:14.4

He's the director of the American Strategy Group

0:16.7

and will get his thoughts on President Trump and Putin.

0:19.8

And lastly John Yu, Professor at Berkeley, a brilliant lawyer, will get his take on the President's

0:25.0

remarks at Helsinki and the Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court.

0:29.6

He is an expert.

0:31.0

Let's welcome back to the show Gordon Chang. Gordon you've heard before. He's the

0:34.8

author of Nuclear Showdown. North Korea takes on the world. Well we've taken on North Korea. How are we doing?

0:40.1

Gordon, welcome back to the show. Well, thank you so much for asking.

0:44.0

I really do want to talk about North Korea, a fair amount, but it would be an affectation not to ask you about

0:49.4

Helsinki yesterday.

0:51.6

And in fact, I want to know if you think there might be a connection.

0:54.0

But what did you think of the President's press conference?

0:58.0

I was deeply concerned by President Trump's performance at the press conference with Putin yesterday.

1:05.0

There are certain things you just shouldn't say in public

1:08.2

on foreign soil standing next to one of the world's great thugs. And whether or not what President Trump said

1:15.0

was true or not, it was just not appropriate to say that in that setting. So it was

1:20.8

offensive, I believe, to American values and norms. I think President Trump needs to apologize to the men and women of the U.S. intelligence community,

1:30.0

and I would hope that he'd apologize to the American people as well.

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