Trump’s TikTok Flip Flop

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Tommy and Ben discuss plans for delivering aid to Gaza through a maritime route and floating pier, US “red lines” over an Israeli invasion of Rafah and the public war of words between Biden and Netanyahu in weekend interviews. They they talk about Viktor Orban’s visit to Mar-a-Lago, concerns from the intelligence community about giving Trump classified briefings during the election, the debate over banning TikTok, election news in Portugal and Turkey, a mass kidnaping in Nigeria, a failed constitutional amendment vote in Ireland, and the photoshop scandal that is fueling even more rumors about the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton. Then Ben does a deep dive on the deteriorating situation in Haiti, which has become overrun by gangs, with Renatta Segura, Deputy Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Crisis Group.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pot save the world and Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes and we have little
0:14.7	flag things square, Pod Save the World for the YouTube audience. Yeah. Pot Save World
0:21.8	things.
0:22.6	Hey, you're welcome, audience.
0:25.1	Then, feisty State of the Union,
0:27.0	when we were talking about it that day,
0:28.4	I did not expect Joe Biden to come out swinging.
0:32.1	Yeah, I don't know if Dr. Ronnie's back in the White House.
0:34.0	Come on.
0:35.0	He never left.
0:37.0	Firey.
0:38.0	Every single headline was like,
0:39.0	fiery this, fiery.
0:41.0	Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
0:42.0	But essentially what they did is they picked like 10 to 15 fights and just, you know, put them together in one speech.
0:47.6	I like that. Yeah. The kind of thing that very well-meaning but annoying lawyers would have told us we were not allowed to do in the
0:54.8	Obama days.
0:55.8	That's true actually.
0:57.6	There was not a lot of hesitancy to draw a contrast, which again, like I think it's the right move and it's an election year so you have to do it and it's the reality.
1:08.0	And frankly, on things like Ukraine, I mean, it's also legislative, you know, it's like they're blocking legislation, you know, sorry you don't like being called out on that.
1:18.0	Mike Johnson looked like he was kind of receding back into his chair and growing smaller throughout the course of the
1:24.0	sad. Yeah, but the whole idea of like I don't even remember what constitutes a Hatch Act
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