Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes and Filmmaker Greg Barker talk "The Final Year"

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🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Filmmaker Greg Barker was granted unprecedented access to President Obama's foreign policy and national security teams in 2016, a story captured in a new documentary "The Final Year." Chuck sits down with Barker and former UN Ambassador Samantha Power and former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.0	Meet the press.
0:09.0	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.2	As we near the one-year mark for the Trump administration,
0:15.4	there's a new film that's looking back in time
0:18.0	at the last year of the Obama administration.
0:21.0	The film is called The Final Year.
0:23.6	And it focuses on the foreign policy
0:25.2	and national security teams inside the Obama White House,
0:28.6	capturing behind-the-scenes moments in real time
0:30.9	with Secretary-State John Kerry,
0:32.6	National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and many others.
0:35.7	The film gets up close with President Obama's advisors
0:38.2	that they tackle challenges across the globe
0:40.2	all while the clock counts down to their final day in office.
0:44.0	I'm joined now by the film's director Greg Barker
0:46.3	and two subjects of the film,
0:48.3	the former UN ambassador, Samantha Powers,
0:51.4	and the former deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes.
0:55.1	Welcome all.
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