Why is the US air dropping aid to Gaza?

Pod Save the World

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Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Tommy and Ben discuss the futility of aerial aid drops by the US in Gaza, Kamala Harris’ speech calling for an immediate ceasefire, Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz’s visit to Washington, and do a preview of President Biden’s State of the Union address. Then they discuss the breakdown of order in Haiti as gangs overrun prisons, a German audio leak about long range missiles for Ukraine posted by Russian state media, France enshrining abortion into their constitution, the thousands of Russians who came out for Alexei Navalny’s funeral, repercussions for multiple US leakers of classified intelligence, and Tucker Carlson’s about face on Putin. Then Tommy speaks with Kholood Khair, a Sudanese political analyst and founder of the Confluence Advisory think tank about the civil war in Sudan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to POTS Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:10.0	I'm Ben Vittor.
0:12.8	I'm Ben.
0:13.8	Ben did you see right before we came in the Department of Justice file the superseding indictment
0:18.6	with more charges for Bob Menendez?
0:20.6	I saw that in the elevator walking up.
0:22.2	I checked our text chain and I was like what?
0:24.5	But I guess these are just the Qatar. Yeah. That corruption which you read about now turning into it.
0:31.6	Yeah, he got something of value to benefit
0:34.2	Qatar. I think they're what a shock.
0:36.6	What a shock.
0:37.3	And this is corrupt.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:39.4	I texted a former Menendez staffer who's now got a very difficult job in the
0:44.8	Biden administration asking if you ever wished he was back in the good old days
0:48.4	defending the gold bars shipments and he said no but I mean again I think I've mentioned this before but
0:54.6	like the funny thing is that I had to deal a lot with the Menendez staff over the
0:59.2	years and the time period in which we did the Iran nuclear deal and the Cuban normalization
1:04.8	he was under indictment for his last corruption charge and therefore was no
1:10.0	longer the chairman of the Farm Relations Committee and I've always wondered how much more painful
1:15.3	that period of time in 2015-2016 would have been on Cuba and Iran if we had like full bore Bob Menendez who was also probably spying for multiple foreign governments at the time.
1:25.5	Yeah, well, we kind of probably would have depended on how many gold bars you had to give them.
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