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🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Susan Hennessey of Lawfare and Rational Security fame joins Radha and Erin to wade through recertifying the Iran deal, social media shenanigans in the Persian Gulf, and whither the new Russia sanctions. Also on tap: all the leaks! and how we forgot about our $1 billion in foreign loans. Radha swoons over a baby hippo and Erin begs Loren to return so we can talk about Jon and Sansa.

Reading:

Peter Baker, “Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, But Only Reluctantly,” The New York Times.
Monika Nalepa, “The attack on Poland’s judicial independence goes deeper than you may think. Here are 5 things to know,” The Monkey Cage.
M. Taylor Fravel, “Danger at Dolam,” The Indian Express.
Barkha Dutt, “Could a war break out between India and China — again?” The Washington Post.
Mark Champion and Marek Strzelecki, “When Trump Goes Abroad, Radical Change Follows in His Footsteps,” Bloomberg.
Jana Winter, Robbie Gramer, and Dan De Luce, “Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department,” Foreign Policy.
Robert Windrem and William Arkin, “Who Planted the Fake News at Center of Qatar Crisis?” NBC News.
Karen DeYoung and Ellen Nakashima, “UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials,” The Washington Post.
“While Fighting the Odds, Fiona the Hippo Becomes a Social Media Star,” NPR.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to this week's Bob Schell. This is Radhae Angar. I'm Erin Simpson, and this week
0:17.9	we have a very special guest, Susan Hennessessey. Hi guys. Welcome. Lauren is
0:22.7	out of town this week and actually will be, we hate to report for the next several episodes.
0:27.4	So we're going to have a rotating set of guest hosts and Susan joins us from the Brookings
0:32.7	Institute, the Lawfare blog, Rational Security podcast and I don know, what else you were getting up to in your free time.
0:39.0	Just roaming around, giving people my opinions.
0:41.6	Carried a microphone.
0:42.7	Unsolicited.
0:43.3	Excellent.
0:43.8	Excellent.
0:44.4	Well, before we dive into bombshell questions for Susan and 100 other things going on this week, Roda, what are we drinking?
0:51.6	I believe we're drinking ginger beer.
0:53.7	Because it's just hotter than hell outside.
0:55.5	It's so hot here.
0:57.1	It is a miserable swamp of a town.
1:00.6	I hear talk that maybe the end of this week is going to get cooler.
1:03.9	By that I mean in the high 80s instead of high 90s?
1:06.4	I mean, you are the optimist here, so I'm going to let you cling to that.
1:10.7	It's a sunny side of life, like literally.
1:12.3	And until then, we're going to drink some ginger beer and some, you know, light.
1:16.4	It's even, it's almost even too hot for bourbon.
1:18.8	I hate to admit it, but, you know, here we are.
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