The RNC live from Jerusalem

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Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the foreign-policy focused elements of the Republican National Convention, including Mike Pompeo’s speech from Israel, great news about efforts to eradicate polio, an update on protests in Belarus, why the State Department is wasting money promoting anti-LGBT bigotry, a military coup in Mali, police brutality in the US and India and news from China. Then Ben talks with Brazilian politician Tabata Amaral about Bolsonaro’s response to COVID, his authoritarianism, and how she’s trying to engage women in Brazilian politics.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Paz de la World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.7	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:14.0	Ben, we got a lot going on today, man.
0:16.0	How excited are you for three more nights
0:18.0	of the Republican National Convention?
0:21.0	I, I, um, I don't even know it.
0:24.0	I admit I didn't watch last night.
0:26.5	I figured I could get the highlights on, uh,
0:28.8	online, which I did.
0:30.3	So some very uplifting speeches about the,
0:33.2	the better America coming from there.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:36.3	Yeah, it was profoundly negative and redundant.
0:39.1	But today's show is not.
0:40.6	Uh, we have a lot going on.
0:41.4	We're going to talk about the poisoning
0:42.6	of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.
0:45.4	We'll talk about some of the foreign policy segments
0:47.4	from the RNC, all the good, the bad, the ugly.
0:50.4	Um, there's some great news out there
0:52.4	about efforts to eradicate polio.
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