Ukraine, corruption, and partners in crime

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

First, Tommy and Ben discuss Trump’s quid pro quo with Ukraine, that country’s history with corruption, why Joe Biden was pushing to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor, and how this controversy could destabilize the Ukrainian government. Then they cover Trump’s call to pressure Australia, the shady ways the White House is restricting access to information, and how Mike Pompeo is complicit in all of it. Finally, they discuss China’s 70th anniversary celebration, the protests in Hong Kong, the latest with Iran, Brexit, and why John Bolton is criticizing Trump’s North Korea policy. Then former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron joins to discuss his new book For the Record, Brexit, and the future of democracy.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potsade the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.8	Ben, back in studio.
0:15.1	Great to have you back.
0:16.4	Kelly, Max, you did an amazing job in your absence last week, but I missed you.
0:20.4	Yeah, I missed you with everything going on.
0:22.0	I had no outlet.
0:23.0	I imagine you wanted to talk about this.
0:24.4	I wanted to talk about this, so I've been looking forward to this podcast my entire life.
0:28.0	Well, luckily there have been 4,000 news cycles since that day.
0:32.0	So we're going to dig into all the various elements of impeachment from a foreign policy
0:36.7	angle.
0:37.7	We're going to talk about what this means for Ukraine, the origins of the conflict there,
0:41.7	the problem of corruption.
0:43.2	Why Joe Biden might have been over in Ukraine asking them to fire a prosecutor.
0:47.9	We're going to explain how poor Australia got dragged into all of this.
0:51.2	We're going to talk about Mike Pompeo, that Paragon of Virtue who is a fixture of the Sunday
0:55.3	shows.
0:56.3	Talk about the latest out of China and Hong Kong.
0:59.4	Talk about Iran, North Korea and Brexit, and then we are going to talk with the former
1:04.5	Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron, about his new book for the record.
1:09.1	Busy show.
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