The DSR Daily for November 2: Pakistan Begins Deportation of Afghan Migrants, George Santos Survives Expulsion Vote
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Chris Cotnoir
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The DSR listener survey is now here. Your voice matters, and we want to hear it. |
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| 0:11.0 | You can find a link to the survey in the show description below. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm your co-host, David Rothkoff, joined today by your other co-hosts. |
| 0:33.0 | Chris Kotler, how are you doing, Chris? |
| 0:35.0 | Doing well, thank you. |
| 0:36.0 | Excellent. And Riley Fessler, how are you, Riley Fessler? |
| 0:40.0 | Feeling energized. |
| 0:42.0 | We're ready to go, Chris. What are your top stories for today? |
| 0:46.0 | I can't remember if you mentioned this off or on air yesterday, but you joked about me being able to speak to current issues at cocktail parties. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, I can tell you that one topic that never comes up is the state of democracy, whether we're talking about state of democracy in the United States or the state of democracy in the world. |
| 1:11.0 | And let me just tell you why we need to be paying attention to this. |
| 1:14.0 | You've got a different cocktail parties than I do here in Washington. That's all people talk about it. |
| 1:21.0 | They're like, oh my god, democracy is anyway going. |
| 1:25.0 | No, that's encouraging to hear. |
| 1:29.0 | The global state makes for unbelievably boring cocktail parties. |
| 1:34.0 | You got to drink a little bit more. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:38.0 | The global state of democracy, 2023 report by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, |
| 1:45.0 | warns of a significant global surge in authoritarianism. |
| 1:49.0 | Leaders in this have been the United States among other players, Turkey, Hungary. |
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