Hello friends, happy holidays, and welcome to this special Christmas Day edition of the Bill Press pod.

Well, after four years of disarray in the White House, we all look forward to getting some experienced people back in charge,

starting, of course, with the president and the vice president. And one of their key advisors will be

Susan Rice. You know Susan Rice. She served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and national

security advisor in the Obama administration.

Now Joe Biden has appointed her the powerful director of the White House Domestic Policy Council,

which coordinates the administration's actions on everything from transportation to health care,

to education, to energy, you name it. I had a chance to interview, Susan, upon publication of her new book, Tough Love,

My Story of the Things Worth Fighting for.

We decided to replay that interview for you today, first as a Christmas special,

and then also for some insights into how key policy decisions will be made

in the Biden White House.

Susan's new book, and I'm going to tell you, it's an amazing book and a really, really

wonderful read for a couple of reasons.

One is because it's a great account of United States foreign policy over the last couple of decades by someone who was in the room where it happened.

Very much of an insider and all the way through certainly the Clinton years, the Bush years, the Obama years, and a lot of new stuff that I learned from it.

That's one reason.

The other reason I found it so compelling a read is because it is an amazingly candid look that Susan takes at herself, at her parents, at her family, at the people she worked with, even at her courtship

and her marriage.

For all those reasons, it's great read, a tough, tough love, and we welcome Susan Rice.

In the book, you talk about several of the successes of President Clinton, Dayton Accords, President Obama, the Paris Accords, the Iran nuclear deal.

You also talk about some of the things that did not go so well and are very honest about some of the things that why they didn't and what you learned.

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