Me too and the Gimme Gimmes
Sirens: A Bombshell production
Bombshell
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on Bombshell, special guest Elizabeth Rosenberg explains the art of unmaking the Iran deal and the consequences of the Trump administration's Iran 'strategy.' Foreign relations are keeping us busy with a tinderbox in Kirkuk at the worst possible time, and a new lens on the Pentagon's under-scrutinized advise and assist efforts in Africa that resulted in four soldier's killed in an ambush this month. Mattis and the White House are sending mixed signals on transparency and democratic accountability on the Hill and in the press (what else is new?). Erin, Radha, and Loren are as usual looking out for budget deals, new and potentially harmful MAVNI guidelines, and Trump appointees. And yeah. Us too.
Episode Reading:
- Radha Iyengar and Rebecca Friedman Lissner, “Iran, Terrorism, and Nonproliferation After the Nuclear Deal,” War on the Rocks
- Angela Dewan, “Why Turkey-US tensions have come to a boil,” CNN
- “Iraq conflict: Peshmerga 'deadline to leave Kirkuk' passes,” BBC
- “Iraqi, Kurd forces in Kirkuk standoff as tensions rise,” Al Jazeera
- Colin Cookman, “Pakistan-Afghanistan Update: Canadian-American Couple Freed After 5 Years Captivity; UN Release Civilian Casualty Update,” Colin Cookman
- Sarah Polley, “The Men You Meet Making Movies,” New York Times
- Ilan Goldenberg and Elizabeth Rosenberg, “If Trump Won't Certify the Iran Deal, He Should Do This Instead,” Foreign Policy
- Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt, “Niger Attack Lays Bare U.S. Troops Long Wait for Medical Help in Africa,” New York Times
- Phillip Carter, “Questionable Calls," Slate
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Baumshel. I'm Lauren D. Young Shulman. I'm Aaron Simpson. And I'm Rada Aangar. |
| 0:17.7 | And we are here this week for a crazy,-topic post-a-ron deal and |
| 0:25.4 | bombshell episode in which we have probably far too much to talk about. So we will try to get to |
| 0:30.1 | everyone's little pet issues in some former fashion over the next hour. We have a fabulous guest |
| 0:36.5 | this week, Ms. Elizabeth Rosenberg, who is a |
| 0:39.9 | senior fellow and program director at the Center for New American Security, working on economic |
| 0:44.7 | and energy security issues. She will walk us through what on earth is going on with the Iran deal, |
| 0:49.8 | particularly on the hill, and what are some next steps there with regard to whatever actions |
| 0:54.1 | the president |
| 0:54.8 | thinks that the Congress is going to take or hopes that they will or probably won't do so at all. |
| 0:59.7 | But before we get to any of that, Aaron, what are we drinking? |
| 1:02.9 | That is such a good question. |
| 1:04.2 | We are drinking a delicious. |
| 1:06.0 | It's not quite a sparkling. |
| 1:07.3 | I think we decided it was effervescent. |
| 1:09.1 | Effervescent. Cateau Saint-Mongarit, kind of a rosé, symphony |
| 1:13.8 | 2016, premium rosé wine from Provence. So it is delicious. We are recording on a Sunday here, |
| 1:21.4 | and it's going well with none of the food that we're eating because we're eating nothing. So it's |
| 1:25.7 | a rosé for lunch kind of day. Rosei for lunch. So Rada is also continued in our distributed operations recording of bombshell. |
| 1:32.5 | What are you drinking? Well, I am, it's a little early here on the West Coast side to start on |
| 1:38.4 | what looks like a beautiful rosé. So I am drinking a delicious cup of coffee, though I have taken |
| 1:43.7 | to putting cinnamon and |
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