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Bombshell

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Join Bombshell for a rousing discussion of the fathomless train wreck that is Brexit and the increasing lack of predictability of the upcoming Israeli elections. Believe it or not, China trade talks are not going as well as they might, as we discuss in "It's Aghast." In White House mayhem, President Trump issued a tremendous press release on the fourth or fifth defeat of ISIL with some bombast and a little general life advice, while recognizing the generally illegal Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, crapping on his own North Korea policy, and putting out a DOA defense budget. We're all fine here, how are you?

Links

Ana Swanson, "Trump Administration Strikes Tougher Stance Ahead of China Talk," New York Times, March 22, 2019
Ian Austen, "What's Going on Between Canada and China? Our Experts Share Their Thoughts," New York Times, March 22, 2019
Yen Nee Lee, "A Trade Deal Could Come in Weeks, But it Won't Remove 'Contentious' Issues, Says Former US Diplomat," CNBC, March 24, 2019
Audit of the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund's Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017
Kathy Gilsinan, "The 'Caliphate' Is Dead, but Americans Might Not Be Any Safer," Atlantic, March 23, 2019
Tamara Cofman Wittes and Ilan Goldenberg, "Trump's Golan Fiasco: Recognizing the Disputed Territory Won't Help Israel. But It Will Reverberate All Over the World," Politico, March 22, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell.
0:10.5	I'm Erin Simpson.
0:12.1	I'm Rada Aingar.
0:13.6	And I'm Lauren D. Young Shulman.
0:15.2	And we are doing another, you know, separated on opposite sides of the coast version of bombshell.
0:20.7	But this week,
0:21.9	this time, Erin and Rada are together. Together again. I have company.
0:28.6	In San Francisco. We're drinking coffee. Maybe you're drinking something more interesting,
0:33.3	Lauren. I am. But we're eating Pop-Tarts for breakfast. Oh, God, that's amazing. What kind?
0:38.0	Really excited about this. Not just any Pop-Tarts, guys, cinnamon-frosted Pop-Tarts. Because why really
0:42.6	pretend with the fake fruit? I feel like, just go all the way. Cinnamon brown sugar, right?
0:47.4	Obviously. Yeah, yeah. That was my, when I worked in the Pentagon, that was my chosen. I don't have actual food, but I'm going to get this as my meal.
0:55.0	It was always a toss-up between that and Famous Amoskookies, but I found that brown sugar pop-tarts
0:59.8	really kind of satisfied in a way that famous famous cookies could not. I used to eat these Pop-Tarts
1:06.0	basically every night after 10 p.m. my freshman year and sophomore year in college. So I'm really enjoying this throwback situation.
1:12.9	I went through an entire college phase where all I ate was cinnamon brown sugar pop tarts and cinnamon toast crunch. It's very cinnamony.
1:19.1	We are role models for the ages. Yep. Very spicy. Very spicy. You guys can all aspire to be just like us.
1:29.5	Speaking of role models, we have a future of Statecraft conference at CSIS coming up.
1:37.1	We do on April 2nd, organized by several friends of the show, or we are friends of their show, hard to say, which came first.
1:45.0	That will be featuring all of us in some way or another.
1:50.0	So please, if you're not already registered for that, you should totally come.
1:53.0	It's going to be amazing.
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