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Mercenaries invade Venezuela

Pod Save the World

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.825.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Why the Trump administration is directing the intelligence community to prove their claims about China and the coronavirus is so dangerous. A truly unbelievable story about a ragtag group of mercenaries who attempted to invade and stage a coup in Venezuela. Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence gets a hearing. Then Asia expert Danny Russel joins to talk about White House plans to punish China over the coronavirus, how Beijing might respond, and what the hell we should make of Kim Jong Un’s reemergence after weeks of rumors about his health.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Pottaiv the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.

0:13.1

I'm Ben Rhodes.

0:14.4

Ben, you just got back from Venezuela from the Ku Attempt?

0:17.6

Yeah, I got out just in time.

0:19.6

I've made my...

0:20.6

I escaped the Bay of Pigs invasion right before the enemy came crashing down on us.

0:25.4

You listeners, maybe I know what we are talking about.

0:28.0

You soon will.

0:29.5

Here's what's going on in the show today.

0:31.4

We're going to talk about our concern that the Trump administration is directing the

0:35.4

intelligence community to manipulate intelligence about China and the coronavirus and why that

0:40.2

is such a big deal.

0:41.6

We are going to talk about the wildest story I've ever heard about an attempted Ku Attempt

0:46.6

slash invasion of Venezuela by this Ragtag group of people.

0:51.4

The Director of National Intelligence nominee is getting a hearing today, so we'll dig

0:55.4

into him again.

0:56.7

And then our friend and Asia expert Danny Russell is going to join to talk about efforts

1:01.8

to punish China for the coronavirus, what the Chinese response would be, and then since

1:06.5

he re-emerged this weekend, what the hell we all should make of rumors that Kim Jong-un

1:12.1

was dead, now he's alive.

1:14.4

It's like two-pock.

1:16.2

More like Biggie actually, Tommy.

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