The Fallout's Gonna Kill You
Sirens: A Bombshell production
Bombshell
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week on Bombshell, Alice Hunt Friend joins us to talk all things Africa and civ-mil. We dive into U.S. operations in Niger and the Kenyan elections reboot. Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping get new mandates while preparing for the president’s big trip to Asia, along with the rest of us. And we all wait for the fallout from the Mueller indictments.
Episode Reading:
- Alice Hunt Friend, "What Does Niger Have to Do with the AUMF?" Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Alice Hunt Friend, "Trump wrongly ignores Africa," The Hill
- Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung, "Amid Niger ambush chaos, the White House first thought several Americans were missing," Washington Post
- Thomas E. Ricks, "An Old Colonel Looks at General Kelly," Foreign Policy
- Loren DeJonge Schulman, "The Necessity of Questioning the Military," The Atlantic
- David Dollar, "Reading the tea leaves of China's 19th Party Congress," Brookings Institution
- Simon Denyer, "China's leader elevated to the level of Mao in Communist pantheon," Washington Post
- Robert Burns, "Pentagon Chief Says North Korea Engages in 'Outlaw' Behavior," NBC News
- Vikram Singh and Lindsey Ford, "China Is Looking Forward to Trump's Truancy at the East Asia Summit," Foreign Policy
- Daniel Kliman and Zack Cooper, "Washington Has a Bad Case of China ADHD," Foreign Policy
- Mike Duncan, The Storm Before the Storm Tour Dates
- Erik Pedersen, "'The Alienist' Premiere Date & Trailer: Bruhl, Evans, Fanning & TNT Trek Back to 1890s New York," Deadline
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Lauren DeYoungshelman. And I'm Alice Friend. |
| 0:17.2 | Which, of course, in my head, I still say Alice Hunt so welcome friend the best thing about |
| 0:21.2 | getting emails from Alice friend is it's from a friend a friend it just cheers my day anytime |
| 0:28.2 | I see one we have all kinds of great questions to ask Alice she is a senior fellow at the |
| 0:33.7 | Center for Street of International Studies CS, and also a PhD candidate at American |
| 0:38.6 | University. But before we dive into that interview, Lauren, what are we drinking? I think that we are |
| 0:44.0 | doing a repeat of the magnificent curio, ale-aged in oak bourbon barrels by Alighash that we |
| 0:51.6 | received from Steve O'Grady. It's the gift that keeps on giving. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, it's been sitting in my office and I was afraid that if I didn't drink it soon, |
| 0:59.0 | the interns would steal it, which is totally fine. It's reasonable. They're interns. They take |
| 1:04.0 | free things. |
| 1:05.0 | It's not fine. Don't steal the bombshell booze. |
| 1:07.0 | This is a very nice thing to steal, I have to say. That would be a ballsy move, I think, if they were to raid our liquor stash. |
| 1:14.2 | And I think this is actually a good moment to tell Alice that you are going to receive a very special bombshell cocktail shaker for being a guest on the show. |
| 1:22.6 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:23.2 | You should have told me that sooner. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.7 | We have a little bit of new swag. |
| 1:26.4 | Hopefully some more swag coming. So everybody just sort of stand by for that, hopefully in time for the holiday season. |
| 1:31.3 | But our guests are getting these excellent cocktail shakers, which don't look quite as much |
| 1:37.3 | like an artillery shell as we would like, but they're really pretty close. |
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