What Susan Rice thinks she could bring to a Biden administration

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Susan Rice, a former U.N. ambassador and national security adviser, is being considered as a potential running mate for Joe Biden. She discusses not only foreign policy but also the global pandemic and the racial reckoning facing America today.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Cape Art and this is Cape Up. In former President Barack Obama's first term,
0:07.8	Susan Rice was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In the second term she was Obama's National Security
0:14.5	advisor. Today Susan rises a private citizen, author of Tough Love, my story of
0:20.5	the Things Worth Fighting For, and under serious consideration to be Joe Biden's
0:25.4	vice presidential running name.
0:27.8	Here what she has to say about that, President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and whether the president is a
0:34.8	national security threat to the United States in this special K-pop live episode right
0:41.0	now.
0:50.0	Welcome back for the third time to the K-pop podcast, Ambassador Susan Rice. Welcome.
0:51.0	Thanks so much, Jonathan.
0:52.0	It's great to be with you.
0:54.0	So literally about one minute before we came on air here, there was breaking news that Trump administration
1:00.8	drops plan to deport international students in online
1:04.8	classes and your reaction was to applaud. Explain. Do the happy dance. Well it was such a misguided, stupid decision that they took in the first place.
1:20.3	International students are a critical part of our university structure, our college
1:26.5	campuses.
1:27.9	They bring talent, they bring diversity, they bring resources, and to lock them out simply because their campuses have
1:37.7	decided by virtue of the pandemic that they need to conduct classes online in the fall was just callous and extraordinarily
1:47.2	counterproductive.
1:48.4	I haven't had a chance to read in detail the reporting on it, but it looks like the Trump administration saw the
1:53.7	reporting on it but it looks like the Trump administration saw that their effort to defend this
1:58.1	policy in court was unlikely to succeed and they backed down and it seems to be a victory for our colleges and
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