On the ground in Burma

Pod Save the World

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News, Politics

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tommy talks with Senator Jeff Merkley about his fact-finding mission to Burma and Bangladesh to learn more about the ongoing ethnic cleansing and refugee crisis. They also discussed the Trump administration’s almost non-existent response, how social media has exacerbated the problem, and what Congress is trying to do to help.

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0:00.0	Potsay the world is brought to you by MSNBC. MSNBC holds our leaders accountable with
0:05.2	tough insightful journalism, joined Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddo and
0:09.3	Lawrence O'Donnell Weeknights from 7 to 11 p.m. Eastern on MSNBC.
0:14.6	Welcome back to Potsay the world. This is Tommy Vittor. Thank you guys for tuning in
0:20.7	as always. Today's episode is revisiting a topic I've discussed here before, which is
0:26.2	ethnic cleansing happening in Burma right now as we speak. My guest is Senator Jeff
0:31.4	Merkley of Oregon. He just got back from a delegation visit to Burma and Bangladesh to
0:37.8	see for himself refugee camps to meet with government officials and try to figure out what
0:43.9	is happening and what the United States government can do to respond. He has a great first-hand
0:49.2	view of the situation. It is increasingly desperate and he also offers some advice for how
0:54.7	everyone listening can get involved and actually push the United States government to do
0:58.6	more and support people who desperately need it. So thank you for tuning in and here's
1:02.9	the interview.
1:05.2	Today on Potsay the world I'd like to welcome the United States Senator Jeff Merkley of
1:09.0	Oregon to the show. Senator Merkley is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1:12.9	and he just returned home from a fact-finding mission to Burma and Bangladesh to assess the
1:18.5	ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people there. So I am incredibly grateful to him
1:22.7	that he made time to join the show today and to help shine a light on this issue. Thank
1:26.9	you Senator.
1:27.9	All you're so welcome and I appreciate you doing a podcast on it. Any podcast titled
1:32.7	Save the World we should be talking about what's going on in Burma.
1:35.6	Yeah we need a little more of that. So just to quickly catch people up on the situation
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