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🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on Bombshell, Radha, Erin, and Loren play natsec madlibs with Amanda Sloat, discussing every possible complexity of US-Syria policy during John Bolton's first week. The neverending potential for a trade war, protests in the run up to the US embassy in Israel's moving day, and Russian expulsions get a lightning round in Keeping Up Foreign Relations. And for White House mayhem they stick to the other side of the river, checking in on the disturbing trend of aviation mishaps, the anniversary of combat integration of women, and sending troops to the border. And you should all be watching Killing Eve.

Amanda Sloat, "Trump's Syria whiplash," Brookings
Amanda Sloat, "The West's Turkey conundrum," Brookings
BBC, "Syria: The story of the conflict," BBC
Morning Edition, "Analysis Of U.S.-Led Airstrikes On Syria After Suspected Chemical Attack," NPR
Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Jed Kim, Renata Sago, Marielle Segarra, Danielle Chiriguayo, Jana Kasperkevic, Aaron Schrank, "Your trade war questions, answered," Marketplace
Alex Capri, "Trump's 'Trade War' Irony: America Loses By Not Rejoining The TPP," Forbes
Zeeshan Aleem, "Trump wasted his chance to make the TPP stronger," Vox
Keith Bradsher, "Trump Weighs Return to Trans-Pacific Partnership. Not So Fast, Say Members." New York Times
Rushdi Abu Alouf and Noga Tarnopolsky, "Nearly 1,000 Palestinians injured in Gaza-Israel border protests," Los Angeles Times
Ilan Goldenberg, "How Trump can move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem," Politico
Greg Jaffe, John Hudson, and Philip Rucker, "Trump, a reluctant hawk, has battled his top aides on Russia and lost," Washington Post
Katie Rogers and Eileen Sullivan, "Trump and Western Allies Expel Scores of Russians in Sweeping Rebuke Over U.K. Poisoning," New York Times
Tara Copp, "Military Times Crash Database," Military Times
Tara Copp, "Navy's spike in aviation mishaps is the military's worst, up 82 percent," Military Times
Doug Mataconis, "Federal Judge Blocks New Version Of Trump's Transgender Military Ban," Outside the Beltway
Elliot Spagat and Luis Alonso Lugo, "US says California rejects proposed border duties for troops," AP
Lindsay P. Cohn, on Twitter
"Update on the Status of Women in Combat," CNAS
Jen Chaney, "BBC America's Killing Eve Is Instantly Addictive Television," Vulture

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:11.8	I'm Lauren D. Young-Schelman. And I'm Radda Iyengar.
0:14.6	And we have, well, just basically, literally everything in the world to cover this week, don't we?
0:19.3	It is an around-the-world version of
0:20.8	bombshell. So fortunately, we come equipped to some very good booze this week. Yes, what are we drinking?
0:25.8	We are drinking. This is from our anniversary show. Ben Wittes brought us a bottle of prosceco.
0:31.3	The canella, canagliano, valdo-biadenei prececo. It's delicious. It's delightful, whatever it is.
0:38.3	And we're not going to tell Ben that we put ice cubes in it.
0:40.1	No.
0:40.7	Excellent.
0:41.3	Rada, are you drinking anything?
0:42.9	Guys, I put ice cream, ice cubes, not ice cream.
0:46.5	Different story.
0:47.7	Into my wine, too.
0:49.0	I'm drinking a delightful rosé from my mom's wine cellar, which wasn't chilled, but I really felt like it was a rosé
0:55.9	kind of day. So I put some ice cubes in it and I'm a class act. It is not a rosé kind of day
1:02.3	here. It's like a hot toddy day here. I don't know. It's still winter. It's never going to end.
1:08.6	But that's, I guess, we're all well hydrated for all the things that we have to come on this episode.
1:15.7	So excellent.
1:16.2	Okay.
1:16.5	April showers.
1:17.3	April showers, indeed.
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