Tucker Carlson Interviews "Putin's Brain"

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Tommy discuss reports that a temporary ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas may be imminent, that Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel, and that the ICC may issue an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu. They also hear from campus protestors in New York, discuss leaked intelligence reports about whether Putin ordered opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death, Tucker Carlson’s interview with a far-right ultranationalist close with Putin, Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s trip to China, why an Iranian rapper got a death sentence, major leadership changes in Scotland, and a dramatic reading care of Scotland. Then Tommy speaks to John McDermott, Chief Africa Correspondent for the Economist about South Africa’s upcoming election, waning western influence in the western Sahel, and the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.

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0:14.3	Welcome back to Pot Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. You made it back from DC without getting absorbed into the blob. Yes, I escaped the clutches once more.
0:20.3	I feel like it's like the slowest police chase in history just the blob
0:23.2	kind of crawling up yeah just just slowly oozing around you did you do White House
0:28.1	Correspondence stuff or did you just know no God no I got the hell out of it
0:31.1	Yeah, I was not gonna yeah people are oh, you're sticking around for the White House Corresponds
0:35.5	We're gonna like not if I'm not obliged to be here.
0:38.2	You didn't go to the all-briden garden party or whatever the big thing is.
0:43.0	Eight years of that weekend was quite enough.
0:47.0	The thing that I never understood was like people go out on Friday, then they do the dinner,
0:51.0	usually Saturday night I think right yeah
0:53.0	then people still go to this big brunch on Sunday it's like aren't you hung over?
0:56.4	It's like the wedding brunch it should be optional should be optional
1:00.5	it should be optional I mean you be optional. I mean, you know, you usually
1:04.5	you're slipping it off. I except the Sunday they would kill bin Laden. Yeah.
1:08.9	Which is also after the day after the White House. That was a PACs
1:11.5	White House Correspondence Center. Well that was not relaxing.
1:13.6	I remember I went out to brunch that day and then I came home to my house and Michael
1:18.2	O'Neill, a friend of the pod, one of the greatest people we've ever known,
1:20.5	was my roommate at the time, had multiple roommates.
1:23.0	And Michael and Yil had scheduled a cooking class to be delivered in our house that day, which was just
1:30.0	annoying.
1:31.0	And I was trying to watch a Celtics game and I actually had a Celtics jersey on and then I got a call
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