Washington Week with the Atlantic full episode, 12/8/23

PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Ukraine is fighting Russia on the eastern front and Israel is hunting Hamas in Gaza. How President Biden navigates this crisis could determine the future of democracy around the globe and at home. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, Leigh Ann Caldwell of The Washington Post, Vivian Salama of The Wall Street Journal and Chuck Todd of NBC News to discuss this and more.

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0:00.0	Ukraine is battling it out against Russia on the eastern front and Israel is hunting
0:04.6	Hamas in Gaza. All of this leaves President Biden very, very busy, but many in
0:09.8	Congress have other priorities. Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our
0:13.8	national security. Holding Ukraine's funding hostages are extreme
0:18.4	partisan border policies. This is about securing our border so we can then help our allies.
0:24.7	How President Biden navigates this crisis could help determine the future of democracy around the globe
0:30.0	and here at home come November.
0:32.4	Next.
0:33.0	This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.
0:40.0	Good evening and welcome to Washington week. Despite President Biden's urgent
0:45.1	call for Congress to support Ukraine and Israel, Democrats and Republicans are
0:48.8	fighting over border security. This comes as the GOP rift over Ukraine widens and also as a growing number of
0:55.1	liberal Democrats demand new conditions on aid to Israel. We're going to talk
0:59.3	about the future of these wars and the ways in which foreign policy gets made in the Washington
1:04.2	sausage factory. Joining me tonight are my colleague Ann Applebaum, a staff writer
1:09.1	at the Atlantic. Leanne Caldwell, a co-author of the Washington Post's early 202 newsletter and a Washington Post live anchor.
1:17.0	Vivian Salama is a national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and Chuck Todd is NBC's chief political analyst.
1:24.8	Welcome all. Let's go right at this is a very complicated subject and let's start on
1:31.4	Ukraine.
1:33.2	Give us the status of the war effort right now,
1:37.5	the Ukrainian war effort.
1:39.1	Are they winning?
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