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Welcome back to Pate the World on Tommy VTore.

I'm Ben Rhodes.

Then we got a lot to cover today, a lot of good Biden news.

Uh, we just saw, just came over the trancem here at, uh,

Crooked Media Global News HQ that,

through Biden called Vladimir Putin today,

so we are gonna dig into what they talked about,

of the future of that complicated US-Russian relationship.

And then our guest today is a guy named Alexei Kovagov,

who is the investigations editor at Medusa,

which is an independent Russian news outlet.

And I talked to him this morning about the protests over the weekend.

What the goal is, uh, why Putin responded to the allegations

that he has built himself a $1 billion palace,

and a lot more, so we talked a lot about the Russian angle.

Uh, but Ben and I are also gonna talk about the fight over Biden's special envoy

for Iran policy and why it's actually bigger than one staffer.

I'm gonna talk about some big policy moves that Biden has made

on domestic extremism, international sanctions, and on Liberia.

We'll talk about why we're a little bummed about Biden's policy

towards Venezuela, and then explained why China is sanctioning

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