The president of the world's most powerful democracy doesn't seem to actually like democracy

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Yochi, Zack, and special guest Loren DeJonge Schulman discuss President Trump's trip to Asia, where his warm feelings for foreign autocrats and refusal to discuss human rights abuses raise real questions about whether the leader of the world's biggest democracy actually cares much about democracy. Those concerns are magnified by Trump's ongoing calls for a criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton, a move usually relegated to banana republics, not the US. On Elsewhere, they turn to one of the strangest US military scandals in memory: growing evidence that members of the elite Seal Team 6 killed an American Special Forces soldier who'd found evidence they were embezzling money. Yochi confesses to being a closet video game addict, Zack shares some strong feelings about Henry Kissinger, and Loren battles a Sudafed-fueled high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Worldly, Fox's weekly guide to the most important stories in the world, part of the
0:12.4	Vox Media
0:13.0	Podcast Network. Zioli here with Zach and friend of show Lauren Schulman, co-host of the
0:17.8	podcast Bomb Shell, a fellow at a large DC think tank called the Center for
0:21.4	Numerican Security, a former senior Pentagon official
0:24.1	during the Obama years, and like Zach, someone who is rather sick this morning.
0:29.0	So we're going to be talking this week.
0:31.0	But it's otherwise much more impressive than me.
0:32.0	Oh, well.
0:33.0	I didn't get a concussion playing flag football.
0:35.0	Concussions decide.
0:38.0	So we're talking this week about two events that took place in two very different parts of the world that raise one very painful
0:44.9	question about President Trump. The first one took place during Trump's visit
0:48.5	this week to Beijing where he said this about the increasingly authoritarian Chinese president
0:53.1	she shimping. My feeling toward you is an incredibly warm one as we said
0:58.0	there's great chemistry. The second one took place 7,000 miles away here in
1:02.3	Washington where they're assigned
1:04.2	Republicans are pushing to actually try to prosecute Hillary Clinton something
1:08.3	Trump kind of infamously called for during a debate more than a year ago.
1:11.5	It's just awfully good that someone with
1:14.6	the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
1:18.6	Because you'd be in jail. Yeah. So you take the two of these together and there's one big question which we'll talk about today.
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