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Welcome back to PodSave the World, I'm Tommy Ditor.

I'm Ben Rhodes.

Ben, we are both live from our respective homes in Los Angeles,

and both of us asked the other if they were distracted by the sound of helicopters overhead,

so that kind of gives you a sense of life in LA right now.

Yeah, yeah, five hours now of helicopters constantly circling overhead here.

And there's a couple of protests that went by, so you're very active here.

Yeah, it's good.

It's good.

We are very, very in favor of protests here at Crook and Media in PodSave the world,

both in the US and abroad.

So today we are going to talk a lot about that.

The protests, we're going to talk about the global reaction to what people are seeing

on the streets of the United States to the police violence that has swept across the country

over the past week.

We're also going to talk about the strange and frankly disconcerting role the US military

is being asked to play in the protest response by President Trump.

Then we're going to get into why Trump is in another pissing war with the G7 countries.

We're going to talk a little bit about Libya because we don't enough,

but a lot is going on there and has been for a while.

We're going to talk about why Ted Cruz is a complete tool,

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