Samantha Power’s point

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Tommy and Ben discuss last week’s violent coup attempt and the call for new domestic terrorism laws, how world leaders are reacting to Trump’s Twitter ban, Netanyahu’s announcement of new Israeli settlements and how Biden should handle it, and all the things Mike Pompeo is trying to screw up for the incoming Biden administration. Then former US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power joins to talk about how to restore American credibility at international organizations, Bill Burns as CIA director, last week’s mass arrests in Hong Kong and refugee policy.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Pazepro World, I'm Tommy Detour.
0:12.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.9	Ben, I don't know about you, man.
0:16.0	My day just got really, really good.
0:17.7	We just had a great conversation with former US ambassador
0:21.6	to the United Nations, Samantha Power.
0:24.0	Her book has come out in paperback,
0:25.6	and we had talked about a whole bunch of stuff
0:27.3	that I think you will all want to hear.
0:29.0	But also, we just saw a tweet come through
0:30.7	that said Mitch McConnell might support impeachment.
0:33.1	So I did not see that coming, and that is really good news
0:36.5	for I think the entire planet.
0:38.4	Yeah, with Mitch McConnell, I always wait until I have the receipts.
0:41.8	But just hearing it makes you feel better.
0:45.8	The possibility of, and I thought Sam Power is good on
0:51.2	why it's still important to show accountability.
0:54.3	Yeah, that's right.
0:55.2	We have a great show today, so we've got the interview with Sam at the end.
0:58.1	We're going to start with the attack on the Capitol last week
1:01.3	by a fascist mob inside the by Donald Trump.
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