The Kyiv To Diplomacy
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Tensions between the U.S. and Russia are rising after last week’s summit in Geneva ended with no resolution between the two countries over Ukraine. We hear an excerpt of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s exclusive interview with Pod Save The World just hours before he went overseas yesterday to meet with Ukraine’s president and Russia’s foreign minister.
Tomorrow, jury selection is expected to start in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights: Tou Thao, J. Keung, and Thomas Lane. All three were on the scene when their fellow officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, and failed to stop him from kneeling on Floyd's neck.
And in headlines: Rudy Giuliani was subpoenaed by the House panel investigating the January 6th insurrection, Tonga gave its first status update after a volcano eruption and tsunami devastated its islands, and a federal judge approved a plan that would resolve Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy and restructure its $33 billion debt.
Show Notes:
Hear Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s exclusive interview with Pod Save The World – https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-world/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 19th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day, where we won't be playing tennis |
| 0:14.0 | in the austereally and open this year out of respect for Novak Djokovic. |
| 0:18.4 | That's right, to be clear, we could have played probably would have won, but you know, it |
| 0:22.2 | just didn't feel fair to do that. |
| 0:23.8 | You know, the real takeaway here is that we are both professional tennis players. |
| 0:27.3 | Correct. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show Rudy Giuliani was subpoenaed by the House panel investigating January |
| 0:35.3 | 6th, plus our first updates from Tonga after last weekend's volcanic eruption and tsunami |
| 0:40.5 | knocked out the country's communication lines. |
| 0:43.0 | But first we want to give you an update on the rising tensions between the US and Russia |
| 0:47.2 | over Ukraine following last week's summit in Geneva that did not lead to a resolution. |
| 0:53.1 | So Gideon, can you remind us about why we're at odds? |
| 0:56.7 | I can try. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm not equipped to do the geopolitical history of the past couple hundred years or so. |
| 1:03.3 | But just to start here over the last few months, Russia has gathered as many as what we hear |
| 1:08.6 | are 100,000 troops at the Ukraine-Russia border, which is prompted to concern that an invasion |
| 1:13.8 | could be happening soon. |
| 1:15.6 | The country has also been asking for US nuclear weapons to be withdrawn from Europe and |
| 1:20.2 | to prevent Ukraine and other former Soviet republics from joining NATO. |
| 1:25.0 | So those demands have been described as, quote-unquote, non-starters over the course of these conversations |
| 1:29.8 | and have been rejected by the US and Western Europe. |
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