NTK: The Real Reason America Is In Such Danger Right Now…and the Solution

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The ceasefire with Iran and subsequent peace talks have taken a predictably disastrous turn. JD Vance has utterly failed as a negotiator. Trump has returned to his maximalist aggression and threatens to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. It’s clear that America, and the world, are in danger. Joe Cirincione and Jon Wolfsthal join David Rothkopf to take a look at what makes the President’s latest moves so perilous and why a fundamental change in the way we perceive our democracy is needed to right the ship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.6	Hello, and welcome to Need to Know. I'm David Rothko, your host, this week. Like every week,
1:21.9	we're going to talk to a couple of folks who are experts and can help us understand what's
1:27.2	going on in the news, and that's
1:28.8	quite a task these days because there's a lot going on in the news. So we've gone right to
1:35.2	the core of the best, smartest people we know. And we have with us John Wolfstahl, who's a nuclear fellow at Pax Sapiens and formerly nuclear expert in a lot of places, including the Obama administration.
1:53.4	How are you doing, John?
1:54.9	I'm good, David. Thanks for having me.
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1:58.1	And Joe Srincian, who is vice chairman at some left-wing foreign policy group that I always forget the name of.
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