Next U.S. ambassador to India might be L.A.'s mayor. Huh?
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🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's a kind of rerun episode. |
| 0:02.9 | Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, keep listening, keep listening because it's totally relevant this week and there's important news at the end. |
| 0:08.7 | Over the summer, we aired an episode on what would happen if President Joe Biden nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to become the U.S. ambassador to India. |
| 0:17.2 | Well, Garcetti's Senate confirmation hearing is this week. |
| 0:20.1 | So we're bringing back that episode back when Garcetti's nomination wasn't official yet, |
| 0:24.1 | and people from Kolkata to Calyxico were saying then, just like now, him? |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Gustav Ariano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times. |
| 0:38.9 | It's Monday, December 13, 2021. |
| 0:42.7 | If Garcetti does become U.S. ambassador to India, it will also be a thank you of sorts for him, |
| 0:47.9 | an early Biden supporter in Southern California. |
| 0:50.6 | So today, we'll try to answer two simple questions. |
| 0:53.5 | How can someone with little foreign policy experience possibly be qualified to serve as an ambassador to the world's largest democracy? |
| 1:00.4 | Or does governing a city as unwieldly and huge as Los Angeles actually make Arsetti the perfect candidate? |
| 1:30.3 | No. Steve Lopez, my fellow columnist at the L.A. Times has covered Eric Garcetti since he was a rookie council member 20 years ago. |
| 1:35.3 | Steve says it's not like Garcetti doesn't have credentials or a lack of ambition. |
| 1:36.3 | He's an actor. |
| 1:37.7 | He's a jazz pianist. |
| 1:38.9 | He speaks Spanish. |
| 1:39.7 | He's Jewish. |
| 1:40.9 | He's Mexican. |
| 1:42.1 | He went to Harvard Wesley. |
| 1:47.0 | I always had the feeling from the time he had his first bowl of Wheaties. He wanted to be president of the United States. |
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