Owned by Russia but itching to bomb Iran

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

First, Tommy and Ben discuss two stories about the Trump administration agitating to attack Iran. Then they discuss several unnerving reports about Trump potentially being compromised by Russia, followed by Brexit, the World Bank, and our Twitter troll ambassador to Germany. Then a Sudanese-American activist named Wafa May Elamin joins to discuss the ongoing protests in Sudan.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potsave the World.
0:12.2	I hope you are still enjoying the new music for the show as John Favreau noted on Potsave
0:18.9	America it is in fact a banger.
0:21.8	Great show for you today so so much has happened in the past week in foreign policy.
0:28.1	First Ben Rose is back in studio we talk about two stories involving the White House's
0:36.1	efforts to try to get options to strike around militarily so those were unnerving.
0:41.6	We talked about the whole basket of crazy Russia stories from this week.
0:46.7	Trump is counterintelligence investigation hiding the transcripts of his conversations with
0:50.7	Vladimir Putin and then wanting to pull out of NATO.
0:54.7	Great we talked about Brexit we talked about the World Bank tensions with China and then
1:00.0	our Twitter troll US ambassador to Germany.
1:03.3	Then I am joined by a Sudanese American activist named Waffa May, Elamin.
1:07.8	We talked about the protests that have been oiling Sudan for the past several weeks and
1:12.1	what it all means and how people back in the United States can organize and help.
1:16.5	So pack show for you today I think you'll enjoy it.
1:19.8	Here's the conversation with Ben.
1:22.2	Ben Rhodes back in studio.
1:24.2	Landed this morning.
1:25.2	About 20 hour flight.
1:26.2	Yeah yeah.
1:27.2	I have to say the last time I talked to you I don't think I slept in about 24 hours.
1:31.2	I apologize.
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