Secret Iran Talks with Jake Sullivan

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tommy is joined by former top Clinton aide and former Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. They discuss Jake’s experience leading the secret Iran deal negotiations, Russian hacking, Trump’s attacks on the intelligence community, Benghazi and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pod Save the World.
0:10.1	This is Tommy Vittor.
0:11.1	This is the first episode of a new show where I try to bring you behind the scenes on all
0:15.8	the big decisions made in foreign policy.
0:18.1	The first conversation I'm having is with a guy named Jake Sullivan.
0:21.2	Jake is one of the smartest guys I worked with in politics.
0:24.2	He was Hillary Clinton's director of policy planning at the State Department.
0:28.0	He was Joe Biden's national security advisor.
0:30.2	He was the top policy guy on Clinton's 2016 campaign.
0:33.4	He led the Iran talks.
0:34.7	He was in the PDB every day.
0:36.4	He lived every minute of the Russian hacking scandal.
0:38.6	So you're going to want to hear what he has to say.
0:40.9	But before we get to that interview, I want to take a quick second to thank Pod Save the
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0:46.3	Now do not skip.
0:47.3	Do not fast forward.
0:48.3	I know you've heard a lot of Blue Apron ads, but I want you to know that I use Blue Apron
0:52.0	way before I was on a podcast.
0:53.4	And the reason is because it's fun.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:55.6	I suck at cooking.
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