Tom Nichols: Incendiary Nominations, Global Conflagrations, & Presidential Pyromania

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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John is joined by Tom Nichols, professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and staff writer for The Atlantic, to discuss Donald Trump’s foreign policy appointments and the challenges he will face upon his return to the Oval Office. Nichols offers a tour d’horizon of global hotspots, from Ukraine to the Middle East, that will test Trump’s mettle immediately and with huge implications for U.S. vital interests; his assessment of how America’s foreign adversaries, from Vladimir Putin to Xi Jinping, view his return to power (spoiler alert: not unhappily); and his argument as to why, amid a raft of objectionable Trump appointments, the selection of Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense is the most irresponsible and dangerous, both abroad and at home. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.7	Aloha and namaste, everyone, and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, auck and Odyssey Joint featuring fresh and topic and candid conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America, shaping our politics and culture.
1:19.8	For all the perfectly understandable shock and outrage across the partisan ideological spectrum set off by Donald Trump's selection of Matt
1:29.7	Gates to be the nation's next Attorney General and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be our next
1:36.8	Secretary of Health and Human Services. Two other picks have elicited just as great a degree of upset in the slightly narrower but very important
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