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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

SUPD 953 A Long talk with Author, Columnist, Commentator Michael Cohen on Israel/Palestine

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

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4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Michael has been writing a lot about the issue we discussed today. Here is his latest at MSNBC American Jews must demand more from our progressive allies

Michael A. Cohen has been a columnist for the Boston Globe on national politics and foreign affairs since 2014. He is also the author of “American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division,” “Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America” and is the co-author with Micah Zenko of “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.” Michael has written for dozens of news outlets, including as a regular columnist for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the London Observer, and World Politics Review. He previously worked as a speechwriter at the US State Department, on Capitol Hill, and at NBC; was a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a fellow at the Century Foundation, the American Security Project, and the World Policy Institute; and has also been a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up, where my guest is Michael

0:07.9

Cohen, formerly columnist of the Boston Globe, now running his own independent, sub-stack,

0:15.1

troop and consequences, regular guests here on the program, and today we talk for almost

0:21.1

an hour and a half, didn't edit it down at all, it is a long conversation and argument

0:28.5

at times about what is happening in Israel, how we should feel about it, think about it,

0:34.1

deal with it, and I hope that you like it.

0:37.1

That is coming up, but first I've got a bit of a news update for you, but not long because

0:42.0

I don't know who has the time or interest in listening to an 80 minute conversation that

0:46.8

I have with Michael, but I did want to put it out there for everybody in full context

0:50.6

to hear and listen to.

0:52.7

But I'd like to start where yesterday started, which is that we all woke up to learn that

0:57.8

another one of Donald Trump's lawyers had pled guilty to charge as part of his cooperation

1:02.3

agreement with the Fulton County Georgia District Attorney's Office.

1:06.2

Yesterday morning, it was Jenna Ellis, member her, she pled guilty to 80 and a betting false

1:11.4

statements and writings as part of the plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential

1:15.8

election.

1:16.8

She is now the fourth of the 19 people charge in Georgia racketeering case to plead guilty.

1:22.4

I like what the Lincoln Project did to mash up the whole how it started, how it's going

1:27.5

for Jenna Ellis.

1:29.5

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, Democrats are trying to manipulate to the

1:34.5

election.

1:35.5

I relied on others, including lawyers with many more years of experience than I to provide

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