Israel’s Judicial Coup, and Samantha Power on Ukraine
Pod Save the World
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the gutting of Israel’s judicial system, and the (lack of) response from the US. They also discuss good-ish news from the elections in Spain, a US soldier who fled to North Korea, Putin’s crackdown on a far-right blogger, how Ron DeSantis and Senator Tommy Tuberville are hurting military recruiting, the UK’s fight with Apple, Saudi Arabia’s $1.1 billion soccer star, and doggie DNA passports in France. Then Ben talks to best friend of the pod Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development about her recent visit to Ukraine, and the impacts of Russia pulling out of a vital grain initiative.
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- Listen to a past Pod Save the World bonus episode on Israel, with Crooked Contributor Max Fisher.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsay of the World. I'm Tommy Bittorne. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. Ben, my daughter rolled over from her belly to her back this morning. |
| 0:18.5 | Congratulations. |
| 0:19.2 | And you would have thought she passed the bar exam. |
| 0:20.9 | She, I mean, that was a reaction. |
| 0:22.5 | Kind of like some people might say it's a greater achievement. |
| 0:25.1 | It was, it was impressive. I was very proud of her. |
| 0:27.9 | It's just the beginning of a long series of very exciting milestones. |
| 0:31.5 | Long series of milestones and one of the first of many child colds. |
| 0:37.1 | Sort of tearing through the house. |
| 0:38.3 | Let's put emphasis on many. I'm sorry to tell you that. |
| 0:40.8 | You were just informing me that I will be sick for the next three years. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, it's the stomach bugs are the ones that caught me off guard. |
| 0:46.0 | Because I didn't used to get those. And suddenly when my kid went to daycare, |
| 0:48.8 | especially it was like, it was like all hell broke loose in my house. |
| 0:51.7 | I was like living in Florida with my own descendants lifting, lifting shuttons. |
| 0:57.2 | That was not good. |
| 0:58.1 | Oh man, speaking and not good. |
| 0:59.8 | We got a lot of stories to cover today. |
| 1:01.2 | Ben, we're going to start with BB Den Yahweh's effort to gut the power of Israel Supreme Court |
| 1:06.6 | in the US response or non-response as it is it were. |
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