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Bombshell

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Bombshell welcomes back Amanda Sloat to dish on all the drama across the pond - Brexit, the selection of the new Tory leader, and Trump’s visit, which was surely not (short)waisted [sic]. Foreign relations are a-twitter with elections in the European Union and Israel (yes, again). And Kim Jong Un thumbed his nose at the world to show that he of course does not murder his failed negotiators – he just imprisons them. The Trump administration has launched another salvo in a trade war with Mexico the same week it noticed USMC-A to Congress, proving that we do indeed contain multitudes. And did you happen to hear about what’s going on with the USS John S. McCain? Also, Radha watched Good Omens and you should too.

Links

Trade – Mexico

Andrew Van Dam, "As Mexico Becomes America's Top Source of Imported Goods, Here are the Products That Could Be Most Hit By Trump's Tariffs," Washington Post, May 31, 2019
Edward Alden, "Why Congress Cannot Allow the Trump Tariffs on Mexico to Stand," Council on Foreign Relations," May 31, 2019
Tom Hals and Brendan Pierson, "Trump's Mexican Tariffs Test Limits of U.S. Emergency Powers: Legal Experts," Reuters, May 31, 2019

Trade - China

"China Threatens Sweeping Blacklist of Firms After Huawei Ban," Bloomberg, May 31, 2019

EU Election

Jon Henley, "EU Elections Turnout Rises As Political Landscape Fragments," Guardian, May 26, 2019

NK Executions

Laura Bicker, "North Korea Execution Reports – Why We Should Be Cautious," BBC, MAY 31, 2019

Brexit

Amanda Sloat, "Brexit Endgame: A Withdrawal Agreement for Theresa May, But No Clarity on Brexit," Brookings, May 30, 2019
Thomas Wright, "How Trump Undermined Theresa May," Atlantic, May 31, 2019
The Role of Parliament in Today's Britain, Brookings, May 28, 2019

Israeli Elections

Bernard Avishai, "A Climax to the Saga of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman," New Yorker, June 1, 2019
Yaakov Katz, "Why is Israel Really Going to New Elections?" Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2019

USS McCain

Barbara Starr and Devan Cole, "Shanahan: USS John McCain Request Made Directly to Seventh Fleet," CNN, June 2, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Rada Aingar.
0:14.3	And we're slightly back together. Lauren and I are together. Hopefully things are not too echoey
0:20.5	in my new apartment where we're recording.
0:23.3	So we'll work on the acoustics here over time.
0:27.3	Rada, is it sunny in San Francisco today?
0:30.7	I mean, it's sunny for San Francisco.
0:33.2	Right.
0:33.6	Right.
0:34.2	Okay.
0:35.2	It's also not hot or humid. I don't know if that's good or bad. I kind of miss the summer humidity. It's also not hot or humid.
0:38.0	I don't know if that's good or bad.
0:39.1	I kind of miss the summer humidity.
0:40.7	It's so good for my skin.
0:41.8	So plus good for my hair.
0:43.3	Oh, wow.
0:43.9	Well, we have plenty of that in Washington.
0:46.3	I got to tell you,
0:47.1	what's not good for your skin is spending all of your time on airplanes
0:49.6	between D.C. and California.
0:51.5	Sheet mask, Aaron. Sheet mask. I love sheet mask, but I refuse to do them on the actual airplane.
0:56.2	Oh, come on like anybody cares.
0:57.2	That is so weird.
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