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🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Erin, Radha, and Loren make it back to the Show (where we never handle our own luggage), welcoming back all-star guest Kori Schake to talk NSC turnover, civil-military relations, and everything else that's radical in a tubular kind of way. We break down Kim Jong-Un's super-secret trip to Beijing and note that when the Saudi Crown Prince showed up for his two week tour of America, not all welcomes were warm. Meanwhile, VA Secretary Shulkin is out (sometimes you win), the president's personal doctor is in (sometimes you lose); and DoD tries to square the circle on the transgender ban (sometimes it rains). We substitute basketball for pop-culture, with predictable consequences. Oh, and when you speak of us, speak well.

Loren DeJonge Schulman, "John Bolton thinks he can be tough. Can he also be fair?" Washington Post
Matthew Waxman, "The John Bolton I Knew," Lawfare
Alex Ward, "Kim Jong Un's secret visit to China, explained by an expert," Vox
Evan Osnos, "Why Kim Jong Un went to China," New Yorker
Dan De Luce, Robbie Gramer, "Congress Sours on Saudi Arabia Over Yemen," Foreign Policy
Dana Stuster, "What's on Mohammed bin Salman's Agenda?" Lawfare
Ryan Hass, "What we know--and don't--about the meeting between Kim Jon-un and Xi Jinping," Brookings
"Doubt cast on Saudi claims of Houthi missile interception," Al Jazeera
Jeffrey Lewis, "Patriot Missiles Are Made in America and Fail Everywhere," Foreign Policy
Phillip Carter, "Chaos Awaits Ronny Jackson at the VA," Slate
Leo Shane III, "What we've learned from David Shulkin's post-firing media blitz," Military Times
Philip Rucker, "Trump's Ohio speech to promote infrastructure ranges widely, from North Korea to 'Roseanne,'" Washington Post

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0:00.0	Welcome to bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schlman. And I'm Rada Aingar.
0:15.3	And we have a Supreme Distributed Ops edition today because our very special guest is with us from London,
0:21.7	the one and only Corey Shockey. Hi, Corey.
0:24.4	I love my friends. It's so good to have you with us again today. I think it's been almost
0:30.1	exactly a year since the last time you were on bombshell in one of our very first episodes. So
0:34.1	thanks for coming back. It's a great pleasure. So we are at varying times of the
0:39.8	day and evening. Lauren, what are we drinking? I mean, I'm having a latte because it's still a little
0:46.1	early for booze in the morning for me. And also tomorrow's Easter, so I have to like prepare myself
0:51.6	a little bit here. We are recording on Saturday and it is Saturday morning indeed for us.
0:56.0	What about you, Rota?
0:57.3	It's eight in the morning.
0:58.5	So I'm on cup of coffee number 2.5 as I power through my, I'm rent fueled with coffee.
1:07.1	It's going to be great.
1:07.7	Super.
1:08.7	And I'm in Corey's honor, I'm drinking actually a london fog which is an
1:11.6	earl gray latte oh excellent marginally less basic than what i would normally wait wait it mixes tea
1:18.9	and coffee i believe so that sounds disgusting it actually really does i'm just i'm look it's
1:26.1	fine it's just bergamont and milk, I think.
1:29.3	Yeah, I was just going to say, it's not the tea and coffee that concerns me. It's the
1:32.6	burgomont. Let's be honest. Yeah, I love it. Just a little much. I love it. Okay, so we have a new
1:37.9	set of questions since the last time Corey was with us. And Corey has a new job since the last time she was with us. So she is now the deputy
1:45.0	director general at double I-I-S, which is the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Strategic
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