Kamala Harris on the world stage
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Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Now that Senator Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s running mate, Ben and Tommy examine her foreign policy record. They also discuss growing concerns about foreign election interference, the disputed election and crackdown in Belarus, how the press is under attack in Hong Kong, Trump’s escalating fight with Chinese tech companies, allegations that Saudi Arabia tried to murder (another) critic abroad, an oil spill in Mauritius, protests in Zimbabwe, eruptions in Indonesia, Putin’s claim he has a Covid vaccine, more ambassadors gone wild and General (???) Bill Belichick. Then Tommy talks with Washington Post Beirut Bureau Chief Liz Sly about the massive explosion that rocked the city and the political and economic crisis in Lebanon before the blast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Potsay, the world I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben, we got a hell of a good show today. |
| 0:16.9 | There is a ton of news. |
| 0:18.4 | Our guest is Liz Sligh. |
| 0:19.9 | You'll hear her at the end of the show. |
| 0:21.7 | She's the Washington Post, Beirut Bureau Chief. |
| 0:24.0 | And I talked to her today about the massive explosion |
| 0:27.0 | that rocked the city last week, efforts to rebuild, |
| 0:29.9 | and the political and economic crisis |
| 0:32.0 | that Lebanon was dealing with before the 2,700 pounds |
| 0:35.6 | of ammonia and nitrate ever went off. |
| 0:37.7 | So great conversation. |
| 0:39.7 | And Ben, I'm just reminded talking to her |
| 0:41.2 | that like foreign correspondents in a lot of places |
| 0:43.7 | put their lives on the line to do their jobs. |
| 0:46.0 | And we should be grateful to them |
| 0:47.6 | and not call them fake news, maybe. |
| 0:49.3 | Yes, they are national and international treasures. |
| 0:52.8 | And they're not enough of them |
| 0:54.0 | because of media consolidation. |
| 0:55.4 | So we're really lucky to have people like Liz Sligh out there. |
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