Why the World Next Week Matters

Why It Matters

Council on Foreign Relations

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4.2 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Tumultuous events have rocked the last four years: the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe’s largest land war in eighty years, and an escalating Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and Iran-backed forces. On top of that, the United States faces an intensifying geopolitical struggle with China and Russia. Now, U.S. President Joe Biden is running out of time to secure his legacy while the transition to a second Donald Trump administration comes sharply into focus. The U.S. president-elect has been quickly nominating leaders to his cabinet and receiving calls from foreign leaders. Why It Matters sits down with the hosts of The World Next Week to talk about what the United States–and a closely watching world–should expect in the weeks and months to come as incoming President Trump takes office. Featured Guests: Robert McMahon (Managing Editor, CFR) Carla Anne Robbins (Senior Fellow, CFR) For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/why-world-next-week-matters

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0:00.0	Guys, this is the crossover that everyone has been begging for, asking for, pleading for.
0:05.1	It's finally happening.
0:06.7	Wow.
0:08.0	But there are no cookies.
0:09.9	You know, we're going to have to do it all over again with snacks.
0:17.0	So here on why it matters, we spend our time focusing on why something far away matters to us at home.
0:23.6	But today, a little more than a week after the election, we are faced with a very different question.
0:29.9	And that's how do the results of the U.S. election affect the rest of the world, what should we be expecting in the weeks and months to come as president-elect Donald Trump
0:39.2	takes office. So today, I am sitting down with the fabulous hosts of our sister podcast,
0:46.4	The World Next Week, Robert McMahon and Carla Ann Robbins, because who better to ask what we can
0:52.2	expect in the world next week than two people who focus on it every show.
0:57.0	So we're going to call it why the world next week matters.
1:04.0	That's my working title for it, unless you guys have like a better...
1:07.6	I just want to get to the world next week.
1:10.4	Yeah.
1:11.9	Step one, get to the world next week. Though, yeah. Step one, get to the world next week.
1:15.1	So, let's kick it off.
1:16.7	President Biden has just under 70 days left in office.
1:20.3	That does not sound like a lot of time.
1:23.3	So I'm just sort of curious overall.
1:25.7	What sort of things does a president usually do during their last few months in office?
1:33.2	Well, presidents spend a lot of time worrying, hoping, building their legacy.
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