The Nuclear Power of the Presidency

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, Mike Pompeo and Mary Louise Kelly. In the interview, Fred Kaplan is back and this time he and Mike are talking about nuclear bombs. They discuss the history of nuclear weapons in the US, why it's concerning that Trump holds the detonator, and how these bombs factor into modern day peacekeeping. Kaplan's new book is The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. In the spiel, Trump team's closing arguments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.6	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Many Piano Music"]
0:11.2	It's Tuesday, January 28, 2020, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:16.1	There are a few modes of Donald Trump that are more annoying than others.
0:19.6	Donald Trump, Windmill, oncologist.
0:22.3	They could ignore that one.
0:23.7	Donald Trump, pantomime truck driver.
0:26.4	Uh, uh, uh, got it, cute.
0:28.7	But Donald Trump, press critic?
0:31.2	Eh, bit less compelling than all the others.
0:33.7	Here he was during a press conference announcing a peace plan
0:37.0	between the Israelis and other Israelis about the Palestinians.
0:42.2	He singled out his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statesmanship
0:46.2	during a recent interview with Mary Louise Kelly from NPR.
0:50.1	That reporter couldn't have done too good a job when you yesterday.
0:54.1	I think you did a good job in her, actually.
0:58.0	That's good. Thank you, Mike.
0:59.5	Great.
1:00.2	So here is the job Pompeo did on Mary Louise Kelly.
1:04.7	He complained during an interview about Iran, which was a good and useful interview
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