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Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

What Would a Second Trump Term Mean for US Leadership?

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

NY Times columnist Bret Stephens joins to discuss the Iranian threat (to Israel and the US), the amazing Israeli penetrations of Hezbollah and Iran, and the fate of NATO, Ukraine, etc in a Trump 2.0 world.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ.

0:07.0

The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

0:13.7

We range from center left to center right.

0:15.8

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark, and I am joined

0:20.9

by our regulars. Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

0:24.6

in the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker,

0:26.9

who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes

0:29.3

from the middle ground and Linda Chavez

0:31.4

of the Niskanin Center.

0:33.0

Our special guest this week is New York Times columnist Brett Stevens.

0:38.0

Welcome, one and all.

0:41.0

Brett, I've been very eager to speak with you about your very stimulating columns over the last several weeks,

0:48.0

and I want to get in our second segment to the burning

0:55.0

burning question of what a Trump victory would mean for America's role in the world,

1:00.0

but we're going to hold off on that for now and address the immediate issue

1:08.0

where as we are recording this, it's Thursday, October 10th.

1:13.0

We are awaiting an Israeli counterattack against Iran,

1:17.8

which has been telegraphed.

1:19.2

We don't know the nature of it.

1:21.6

Yewav Galant has said it will be surprising.

1:25.0

And so I want to get a sense from you,

1:30.0

from you, Brett, about, you wrote a recent column saying that we should be rooting for Israel to win this encounter with Israel's enemies and I and you make the case that these are our enemies as well

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