Trump on Iran: Locked and Bloated

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about the growing risk of war with Iran in the wake of the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, the Israeli elections, Rep. Adam Schiff’s claim that the Director of National Intelligence is suppressing a whistleblower, Trump’s favorite dictator, the death of Hamza bin Laden, Indian Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the US, how to build an international coalition to fight climate change, and storm Area 51 gets cancelled. Then Tommy talks with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) about why he thinks a military attack on Iran is insane and the humanitarian disaster in Yemen.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potts of the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:10.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:12.0	Ben, you're our roving UN General Assembly correspondent today.
0:16.8	Congrats on your promotion.
0:17.8	Yeah, I know.
0:18.8	I'm scoping at...
0:20.8	I actually had lunch across the street from Trump Tower, so it's good to be close to
0:24.9	our friends there.
0:25.9	Oh, nice.
0:26.9	I feel very embedded in the UN process because I've been reading Samantha Powers.
0:29.9	Excellent book.
0:30.9	I'd like you to negotiate some sort of resolution for me while you're there.
0:34.1	Yeah.
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:36.1	Well, we can talk about that with Samantha, maybe.
0:37.6	Yeah, that's right.
0:38.6	That's right.
0:39.6	That's right.
0:40.6	Teaser on future episodes.
0:41.6	So, today we're going to talk about the ever growing risk of war with Iran after this
0:44.8	attack on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure over the weekend.
0:48.0	I'm going to talk about these really elections.
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