The world Biden inherits
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On the final Pod Save the World of the Trump presidency, Ben and Tommy talk about Joe Biden’s day-one foreign policy agenda, the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, why the US dropped charges against a Mexican general accused of working with a drug cartel, how Trump is trying to keep his loyalists in the government after he leaves office, elections in Uganda, a State Department designation of genocide in Xinjiang, and more. Then activist Nathan Law joins Ben to talk about where the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong goes from here.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back to Potsay Vworld, I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.0 | Ben, we got a little pep in our step today. |
| 0:16.0 | This is the last episode with Donald Trump as president. |
| 0:20.2 | I cannot believe how good that feels. |
| 0:22.4 | I... it feels better than I even thought it would. |
| 0:25.4 | We're just watching like the mixture of familiarity of the Biden and the inauguration combined with |
| 0:33.6 | how unfamiliar it is after four years. |
| 0:35.7 | Like, there really is something pretty cathartic about the whole thing. |
| 0:39.6 | And I remember Tommy four years ago, an inauguration day, like one of the worst days of my life. |
| 0:43.9 | You know, I went out to Andrews of the Obama. |
| 0:46.7 | I flew on Air Force One to Palm Springs where we dropped the Obama's off in California. |
| 0:51.6 | And then flew home on this empty Air Force One, and it was just super depressing to land. |
| 0:56.9 | And Donald Trump's Washington. |
| 0:58.9 | All right. |
| 0:59.9 | I honestly can't even imagine. |
| 1:01.3 | And also, shout out to Joe Biden's advanced team for making a lot of really poignant, meaningful |
| 1:07.3 | events today and it looks incredible on TV. |
| 1:10.4 | So huge week. |
| 1:12.4 | There's a lot happening. |
| 1:13.5 | As we were prepping for the show today, several of Biden's national security nominees were |
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