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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The ladies of Bombshell take on proteins and Afghanistan policy all in one segment with special guest Frances Brown. Across the pond, Brexit is going nowhere fast and NATO is celebrating a grand birthday while the American president is questioning whether he wants to keep paying dues. In It’s Aghast, 5G is fast, the future, and not so much fun for American competitiveness. And in White House mayhem, the Congress mustered up some war powers energy to get the US out of the military operations in Yemen that the administration claims we aren’t in, while the president visited the border just defenestrating his Homeland Security Secretary.

Links

Huawei/5G

Ahiza Garcia, "Verizon Launches First 5G Phone You Can Use on a 5G Network in US," CNN, April 3, 2019
Milo Medin and Gilman Louie, "The 5G Ecosystem: Risks and Opportunities for DOD," Defense Innovation Board, April 2019
Zak Doffman, "Huawei May Have Claimed 5G Victory Over the US But Is Now In A Street Fight," Forbes, April 5, 2019
Keith Johnson and Elias Groll, "The Improbable Rise of Huawei," Foreign Policy, April 3, 2019

Saudi Human Rights

Vivian Yee and David Kirkpatrick, "Saudis Escalate Crackdown on Dissent, Arresting Nine and Risking US Ire," New York Times, April 5, 2019
Alex Ward, "Saudi Arabia Is Detaining American Activists 6 Months After Khashoggi's Murder," Vox, April 5, 2019
ALQST, Tweets, April 4, 2019
Joyce Lee and Dalton Bennett, "The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi," Washington Post, April 1, 2019

Brexit

Heather Stewart and Daniel Boffey, "Hopes of Brexit Progress Fade as Labour Says May Has Failed to Compromise," Guardian, April 5, 2019

Afghanistan

Fahim Abed, "Taliban Attack Kills Dozens in Afghanistan Despite U.S. Efforts in Peace Talks," New York Times, April 4, 2019
Barbara Walter, "Hoping That Peace Comes to Afghanistan? Dream On," Washington Post, January 30, 2019

Mexico Border

Molly O'Toole, Noah Bierman, and Eli Stokols, "As Trump Threatens to Close Border, Experts Warn of Billions in Economic Damage," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2019
Maegan Vazquez, "Trump Heads to US-Mexico Border After a Week of Confusing Threats," CNN, April 6, 2019

NATO

Karen Donfried, "3 Ways Europe Is Looking At A Fray NATO," Defense One, April 2, 2019
Rachel Rizzo and Carrie Cordero, "Bolstering Congressional Support for NATO," CNAS, March 20, 2019

Yemen

Elisa Catalano Ewers and Nicholas Heras, "Congressional Action on Yemen Isn't Only About Yemen," CNAS, February 27, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Rada Aingar.
0:15.3	And we're back with another West Coast distributed operation. I'm at a lovely hotel room in California. Rada is in
0:24.8	San Francisco eating what appears to be a smores pop tart. That's correct. That's correct, guys.
0:31.4	Lori, are you drinking? And you're in Washington. Are you drinking anything interesting?
0:35.6	I'm drinking some Bordeaux because that's what you do on a Saturday at noon.
0:41.0	I guess it is noon in Washington. I find time zones to be really confusing. I just, and I think the
0:45.7	West Coast is really dislocating. I just want everyone to know that. It is. Plus you wake up and
0:49.8	people are like halfway through their day already. So you're like, I know, it's so, and you know how I hate to miss things. And so it's like permanent time schedule, fomo. Yep. Oh my goodness.
0:59.6	I'm like that. I'm like, ah, because of course I, you know, don't want to, I just want to pretend like I don't
1:04.7	need to know anything that happened before I was cognizant. so it's great.
1:12.8	Well, we have an excellent guest.
1:15.6	Oh, do we have an excellent guest, but first, do we have any announcements?
1:16.8	Yes.
1:19.9	Rana and I were on another podcast.
1:21.1	It's okay.
1:22.6	We cheated on bombshell a little bit.
1:28.7	On the Smart Women's Smart Power podcast produced by Center for Strategic and International Studies with the wonderful Alice Hunt friend and Beverly Kirk. That is out now on the CSIS podcast feed.
1:35.7	And I think that we were particularly fascinating in this show, mostly talking about our views on
1:39.8	our careers and mentorship and being a woman in the field. And it was all around delightful. So
1:45.0	everyone should listen. Yeah, we were accidentally overly candid. So I'd encourage you to listen.
1:50.7	Oh, I'm going to have to find out what you said in my absence. We're only talking about you.
1:56.9	My worst nightmare. Okay, back to our amazing guests we have with us today, Francis Brown from, she's a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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