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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week Susanna Blume joins to tell us how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill - the defense budget, continuing resolutions, and other congressional hijinks. And Radha returns from maternity leave! Then we wade through the president's Jerusalem announcement and recent Brexit breakthroughs, before dissecting the new National Security Strategy. And of course we discuss Season 2 of "The Crown" - and our new gift guide!

Episode Reading:

Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability,” CNAS
Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “Congress, cut the continuing resolutions so Defense can do its job,” CNAS
Max Fisher, “The Jerusalem Issue, Explained,” New York Times
Ishaan Tharoor, “The many casualties of Trump’s Jerusalem move,” Washington Post
Tony Connelly, “Brexit and the Irish Border: How the deal was salvaged,” RTE
BBC, “Theresa May says Brexit deal ‘good news’ for all voters,” BBC
Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler, “Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU,” BBC
Kate Brannen, "Trump's National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian," The Atlantic
Salman Ahmed and Alexander Bick, “Trump’s National Security Strategy: A New Brand of Mercantilism?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ilan Goldenberg, “The Selfish Motive Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Decision,” Slate
Kori Schake, “The North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar,” Atlantic
Mira Rapp-Hooper, “America Is Not Going to Denuclearize North Korea,” Atlantic

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shelman. I'm Roda Ainger. You're back.
0:18.3	Yay! I'm back! We're so excited.
0:22.5	And today we have a special guest.
0:24.2	This is Susanna Bloom.
0:25.0	Welcome.
0:26.9	We are very excited to have you.
0:27.3	Thank you.
0:28.3	I'm delighted to be here.
0:38.0	Before we get going on talking to Susanna and telling you the delicious drinks that we're drinking this week. We have a few announcements. First of which is that this is kind of our last regular podcast of the year, we think. Probably. Probably. We are going to have a
0:44.6	special edition out sometime next week, which will be a live podcast that we're recording at the Air
0:51.1	Command and Staff College and Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
0:55.9	We decided that was a great idea to travel to Alabama in December just after a special election.
1:01.4	So sweet home Alabama everybody.
1:03.7	Everybody can look forward to that.
1:06.1	That will be out next week and should be kind of a year in review.
1:10.5	And Star Wars commentary would be my would be my
1:13.5	guess. We also have a gift guide in the works. Is that right, ladies? It's going to be fabulous.
1:20.2	It involves weird books and meat products and sparkly Rothies. That's right. Yeah,
1:25.8	Rodo's books were the weirdest. I'm not going to lie.
1:29.4	Listen, guys, I'm an economist.
1:32.8	I try really hard to be normal, but there's only so far it's going to go.
1:33.2	Okay.
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