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The Gist

The Hygiene Hypothesis

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:30.0

I never can do with this many times or that many times size the bomb comparisons just just

0:34.5

know it's a really big bomb.

0:36.4

And here's what Tillerson did and said and opined nothing nothing and nothing.

0:40.5

In fact, reporters who cover the state department didn't really know where he was.

0:44.9

They found out that he was in Texas.

0:46.9

He needed a weekend break.

0:48.9

Nikki Haley, UN ambassador was left to and I think she quite eagerly enjoyed this define

0:55.0

US foreign relations when it comes to our biggest or one of our biggest.

0:59.1

There are a lot of threats, one of our biggest threats.

1:01.4

Tillerson, pretty quiet Dan Dresner, professor at Tufts, writer in the Washington Post also

1:06.7

notes this about Rex Tillerson who wants to talk very quietly be the subtle secretary

1:11.8

of state.

1:12.8

Here's how Dresner defines it and describes it.

1:15.6

Tillerson's theory of diplomacy is bananas and Robbie Gramer, who does great stuff for

1:20.8

foreign policy, was writing about Tillerson's main goal pretty much it seems why he took

1:26.7

the job not to just talk softly and stay out of the public eye, but to lesson to decrease

1:34.3

the amount of funding his own department gets, which is quite quite crazy.

1:38.4

Robbie Gramer writes in a stark repudiation of the Trump administration lawmakers on Thursday

1:42.9

passed a spending bill that overturned the president's steep proposed cuts to foreign

1:48.2

aid and diplomacy.

1:49.2

So as much as the president and Rex Tillerson say, hey, why don't you sideline the department

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