Who Needs a State Department Anyway?

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

With Trump just back from an Asia trip that ran the gamut of outcomes from negligible to awful, the question turns again to what's going on with U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, we take a look at the gutting of the State Department and the president's pronouncement that "l'etat c'est moi." (Was that him or Louis XIV? I always get them confused. Suffice it to say it was someone whose tastes ran toward gold bathroom fixtures.) We go there--with special guest, former Bush Administration Under Secretary of State and distinguished career foreign service officer Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Stanford's Kori Schake and Georgetown's Rosa Brooks. Tune in.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.3	Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
0:47.0	Hello this is David Rothkoff the host of Deep State Radio I am in our third sub-basement studio here at the Ministry of Snark, joining
1:00.0	you for another episode of the Deep State Radio with Rosa Brooks who is also with us here in the studio,
1:07.0	Corey Shaki, who is in Stanford or somewhere in Palo Alto or on the beach.
1:13.0	We're never in a bar.
1:17.0	Possibly in a bar.
1:19.0	We're never really fully sure with Corey.
1:22.0	In a bar on the beach.
1:23.4	Yeah, right.
1:25.1	Well, and we wish, that's why folks,
1:28.0	she's smarter than all the rest of us.
1:30.7	And also, Nick Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Policy, Career,
1:37.0	Diplomat Extraordinare, somebody who is on everybody's shortlist to someday end up as U.S. Secretary of State and who
1:46.0	teaches at the Kennedy School at Harvard.
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