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Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

First, Tommy and Ben discuss President Trump’s choice to be his Director of National Intelligence. Then, GQ’s Julia Ioffe joins to discuss the brutal crackdown on protestors in Russia. Then Tommy and Ben discuss Bibi Netanyahu’s new campaign strategy, Bernie Sander’s policy towards Israel, our policy in Afghanistan and the bizarre role Secretary Pompeo is playing overseeing the military. Finally, they check in on Boris Johnson and Trump’s global corruption network. Then Tommy talks with The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald about some why his reporting led the President of Brazil to threaten him with jail time.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Patsy the World, I'm Tommy G-Tore.
0:12.6	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Then with a great show this week.
0:15.2	Great show.
0:16.2	We have two guests and we'll get to that in a second.
0:18.7	But I think we'll start with Trump's pick to be the new director of national intelligence.
0:23.9	Then GQ's Julia Yafi is going to join to talk about the brutal crackdown on protesters
0:28.5	in Russia.
0:29.5	We'll do some updates from our best friend, BB Netanyahu, and then talk a bit about Bernie
0:34.2	Sanders, US Israel policy, which he talked about with John Favreau and Patsy of America.
0:38.7	We'll talk about Mike Pompeo's update on our troop presence in Afghanistan.
0:42.8	Quick check in on Boris Johnson, Trump's global corruption network and US arms sales to Saudi
0:48.2	Arabia.
0:49.2	Later in the show, I'll talk with the intercepts Glenn Greenwald about some of the amazing
0:52.7	reporting the intercept is doing in Brazil and why it has led President Bolsonaro to literally
0:57.2	threaten to throw him in jail so it's pretty serious, scary stuff happening down in Brazil.
1:02.4	I feel like we're going to be checking in on Boris every now and then.
1:05.6	Yeah.
1:06.6	Boris went to Scotland to visit a friend of the pod, Nicholas Sturgeon, so it didn't look
1:10.0	like it went all that well.
1:11.8	He was booed.
1:13.2	But let's start with our new director of national intelligence.
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