President Biden, Saudi Arabia and human rights
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the newly released report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and how President Joe Biden is approaching the US-Saudi relationship, US airstrikes on Syria, how Iran has responded to outreach from the Biden administration, why another French President is going to jail, Salvadoran elections, India and Pakistan reaching a ceasefire in Kashmir, Mike Pompeo’s bad stand up at CPAC and more. Then Ben talks to historian and author Thant Myint-U about where Myanmar goes from here and whether the US actually has a role to play in bringing democracy back to the country.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Pads Save the World. I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.6 | Ben, I want to wish you and all our listeners a happy |
| 0:18.0 | Merck Johnson and Johnson vaccine collaboration day. |
| 0:21.4 | I don't really know what that means or how it'll work, |
| 0:24.2 | but I'm just going to continue to play up anything that makes me feel like I might get |
| 0:28.6 | a vaccine soon because I'm losing my mind. How are you? |
| 0:32.5 | I've never had such positive feelings about a big farm, |
| 0:35.1 | but Tommy. |
| 0:35.8 | No, it's like... |
| 0:36.9 | It's... |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | It's so weird to be really really big farm, but I am... |
| 0:41.0 | It's really weird to be like, yes, go Merck, go Merck. |
| 0:44.0 | I just wish I knew people in the health care space because, boy, |
| 0:47.3 | I'm lonely in here. |
| 0:48.8 | We got a lot to cover today. |
| 0:50.5 | We are going to talk about the not at all funny situation with Saudi Arabia |
| 0:55.7 | and the Biden administration's response to Saudi Arabia's murder of a journalist named Jamal Khashoggi |
| 1:01.5 | and why it disappointed a lot of people. |
| 1:03.5 | Talk about some new US sanctions against Russia. |
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