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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

The Jackpod: Where the roads lead

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the numerous ways Donald Trump has sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin since re-entering the White House.

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0:00.0

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I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie,

0:39.3

helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

0:46.3

Hello there, Jack.

0:47.8

Hello, Megna.

0:48.8

We are at episode 69 and your headline.

0:52.6

Where the roads lead. Where the roads lead.

0:54.7

Where the roads lead?

0:56.0

And where do they lead, Jack?

0:58.2

Well, to hear Nancy Pelosi tell it, quote, with him, all roads lead to Putin.

1:06.7

I don't think there's any question who the hymn is, but in case, she's speaking of the president.

1:11.9

She was speaking in June of 2020 when the New York Times in a bombshell story said that our intelligence people thought the Russians were paying $200,000 bounties to Taliban members who killed American soldiers.

1:33.1

And Trump had not, at that point, reacted to this rather stunning news.

1:40.9

And she said, this is a new low.

1:44.7

I can't understand it.

1:46.7

What do they have on him?

1:48.5

What personally, what financially, what politically,

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