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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) discusses rising tensions with China ahead of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to Beijing. White House sources say a West Wing tour guest likely brought cocaine into the executive mansion. Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, explains what comes next after Israeli troops carry out the largest military operation in the West Bank in decades. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday tested on the world stage, President Biden pushes to expand NATO as Vladimir Putin seeks deeper ties with China.
0:10.0	Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen heads to Beijing and U.S. forces intervene as Iran tries to seize a pair of oil tankers.
0:19.0	Plus cocaine mystery at the White House.
0:22.0	A lab test confirms that the substance discovered inside the West Wing Sunday night
0:27.4	was, in fact, cocaine as questions swirl over who it belonged to and how it got there.
0:34.3	And violence and grief grip the Middle East as the deadly conflict between Israelis and Palestinians
0:40.3	raises new alarms about the potential for Chuck Todd, as the White House and President Biden find themselves facing a series of new clashes and confrontations with the U.S.'s most significant foreign adversaries.
1:11.1	Russia, China, Iran, as the war in Ukraine rages on, this afternoon, the president renewed
1:17.4	his effort to expand NATO's power, welcoming Sweden's prime minister to the White House
1:23.1	and pushing for the Nordic country to be added to the NATO alliance.
1:35.3	I want to reiterate the United States fully, fully, fully support Sweden membership in NATO. And the bottom line is simple.
1:37.3	Sweden is going to make our alliance stronger and has the same value set that we have in NATO.
1:45.0	And I'm really looking anxiously looking forward for your membership.
1:49.4	The move comes amid new calls from foreign policy experts, even some NATO member states for the White
1:54.8	House to help pave a path for Ukraine to join the NATO alliance as well that Putin says
2:00.4	would be a red line for Russia.
2:03.1	Meanwhile, the Russian president in the aftermath of last month's armed rebellion is looking to deepen
2:08.5	his ties to U.S. rival China, appearing virtually alongside Chinese President Xi and a number of
2:15.0	leaders from Central Asian nations, that summit comes as the
2:18.9	Financial Times is reporting that Xi personally warned Putin against using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine,
2:25.3	a report we should note that the Kremlin denies.
2:28.1	With the Russian-Chinese alliance in the spotlight, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
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