Hello, listeners. This is Bob McMahon. Today we are sharing a special episode Carl and I recorded with our colleagues over at the Wyatt Matters podcast of CFR.

Carla and I both sat down with Gabrielle Sierra, the host of Wyatt Matters, to talk about the world next week, next month, and into next year,

with a particular focus on the outgoing Biden administration and what the world will be keeping an eye on

as the incoming president Donald Trump prepares to take office for a second time.

The world next week will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week.

Guys, this is the crossover that everyone has been begging for, asking for, pleading for. It's finally

happening. Wow. But there are no cookies. We're going to have to do it all over again with snacks.

So here on why it matters, we spend our time focusing on why something far away matters to us at

home. But today, a little more than a week after the election, we are faced with a very different

question. And that's how do the results of the U.S. election affect the rest of the world, what

should we be expecting in the weeks and months to come as president-elect Donald Trump takes office?

So today, I am sitting down with the fabulous hosts of our sister podcast, The World Next Week, Robert McMahon and Carla Ann Robbins,

because who better to ask what we can expect in the world next week than two people who focus on it every show?

So we're going to call it why the world next week matters.

That's my working title for it, unless you guys have like a better...

I just want to get to the world next week.

Yeah.

Step one, get to the world next week. Yeah. Step one, get to the world next week.

So let's kick it off.

President Biden has just under 70 days left in office.

That does not sound like a lot of time.

So I'm just sort of curious overall.

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