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4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week Erin and Radha hold down the fort and return to some of Bombshell's greatest hits topics, starting with North Korean missile tests and a double feature from ISIS (a new video from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the horrific attacks in Sri Lanka), and spinning some militias in Libya and new Iran sanctions for good measure. With the continuing mayhem in Washington, they turn to the chaos in Venezuela, lack of data from Afghanistan, and of course the "clash of civilizations" on the horizon with China. With Loren out, Erin has to skip Game of Thrones coverage and talk princess TV and tiaras with Radha. Links Libya Mieczyslaw Boduszynski and Christopher Lamont, "Trump Changed US Policy Toward Libya. This is Why it Matters," Washington Post, May 03, 2019 Al Baghdadi/Sri Lanka Frank Gardner, "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Why is it So Difficult to Track Down IS Leader?" BBC, May 01, 2019 Souad Mekhennet "In ISIS Leaders Video Appearance, Messages to Followers, Rivals, and the West," Washington Post, May 02, 2019 Iran Sanctions "Six Charts That Show How Hard US Sanctions Have Hit Iran," BBC, May 02, 2019 Osama Bin Javaid, "Iran Sanctions Explained," Aljazeera, May 04, 2019 Matthew Lee, "US Renews Iran Sanctions Waivers for Civilian Nuclear Work," AP, May 03, 2019 "Clash of Civilization" Daniel Drezner, "Let's Grade the State Department's Director of Policy Planning on Her Grand Strategy Musings," Washington Post, May 01, 2019 Paul Musgrave, "The Slip That Revealed the Real Trump Doctrine," Foreign Policy, May 02, 2019 "A Better Reading of History Must Bring Home the Truth That the Basic Factor in Human Affairs is Not Politics, But Race," Lawyers Guns Money Blog, May 03, 2019 Jessica Chen Weiss, "No China and the US Aren't Locked in an Ideological Battle. Not Even Close," Washington Post, May 04, 2019 Afghanistan "US Military Stops Releasing Information Tracking Progress in Afghanistan," CBS, May 01, 2019 Sri Lanka James Griffiths, "A Weeks After the Easter Sunday Attacks, Sri Lanka is No Closer to Understanding or Healing," CNN, April 28, 2019 Venezuela Karen DeYoung, "US Officials Weigh Options for Venezuela as Trump Describes Positive Call with Putin," Washington Post, May 03, 2019 Anthony Faiola, "Guaido Says Opposition Overestimated Military Support Before Failed Uprising," Washington Post, May 04, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:12.4	And I'm Roda Aingar.
0:13.9	We have a California-only edition of this week's bombshell.
0:17.7	Lauren is not feeling well.
0:19.0	So it's just us west coasters, whether temporary or not,
0:23.3	dialing in talking to each other early on a Sunday morning. Do you have anything interesting to drink
0:29.2	Rada? I'm like, I don't even have any LaCroix in here. I had like bad hotel coffee. I meant to pour
0:34.5	some mango juice because my parents are visiting helpfully and so I have juice,
0:39.3	which is rare. Because they bought it for you or you bought it for them? Okay. A little bit of both.
0:44.8	Super. They bought it on my request that they buy it for themselves.
0:50.4	That's really sums up my relationship with my parents. And that we, neither of us are drinking anything is probably, I drink a lot yesterday.
0:57.7	I had a friend was like, do you like the derby?
0:59.7	And I was like, well, I like bourbon.
1:02.2	And that's pretty much how the rest of that day went.
1:04.4	So good morning from sunny Southern California and our sort of little sleepiness here.
1:12.1	We have a pretty full list of things to get through.
1:16.0	There's been a lot going on.
1:18.3	Stuff does keep happening.
1:20.8	We're going to start, like I said, we're recording on Sunday.
1:23.7	And if we just sort of dive into keeping up foreign relations,
1:27.4	North Korea tested some
1:29.2	short-range ballistic missiles yesterday. At first, we were just calling them projectiles,
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