1329 David Rothkopf Returns!
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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šļø 11 April 2025
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David Rothkopf is CEO ofĀ The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts includingĀ Deep State Radio,Ā hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books includingĀ Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power,Ā Superclass,Ā Power, Inc.,Ā National Insecurity,Ā Great Questions of Tomorrow, andĀ Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump.
Joe JacobsonĀ is a political strategist with eight years of electoral, lobbying, and government experience. Prior to founding the Progress Action Fund, Joe worked for the Service Employees International Union, where he oversaw endorsements, independent expenditures, and government relations operations in four purple counties in Southern California. In response to COVID-19, he co-founded a bipartisan task force to persuade the GOP led San Diego County Board of Supervisors to allocate $10 million for free childcare for essential workers
Before SEIU, Joe worked at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC, where he devised strategies with union leaders in 21 states to support local, state, and federal candidates. Joe also has a variety of policy experience, including for President Obamaās Council of Economic Advisers and Senator Ron Wyden.
Joeās start in politics began at 6 years old, when his Grandma Judy gave him a book about the presidents. Grandma Judy was Joeās inspiration for politics, the two of them talking on the phone every few weeks about progressive politics. During her life Grandma Judy was involved with Seattleās League of Women Voters, 33rd District Democrats, and Planned Parenthood. The Progress Action Fund is dedicated to her memory.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, it's Friday. We made it to Friday, and we're all still here. Thank you so much for joining me here on today's episode of Stand Up, where my very special guest is the always brilliant David Rothkopf of, well, everything. He's posted in Daily Beast, MSNBC is Substack, Need to Know, and his podcast, Deep State Network series of podcasts, |
| 0:28.1 | so many different places that we can learn from David Rothkoff's brilliant mind. |
| 0:34.4 | And today is a great conversation. |
| 0:36.9 | I think you'll love it. We love whenever David |
| 0:39.3 | joins us and today definitely no exception. Real quick rundown on yesterday's news. Here are your |
| 0:45.5 | headlines from yesterday. China has raised tariffs on U.S. imports 125%. So I mean, we might |
| 0:53.7 | just have a full on embargo. it feels like I'm hearing. |
| 0:57.1 | The Supreme Court sided with a man who the government wrongly deported to El Salvador, so |
| 1:02.8 | they've demanded a lower court somehow find a way to get him back. |
| 1:06.8 | Something makes me feel like the El Salvadoran torture people are going to say, yeah, we can't find this guy. |
| 1:12.6 | I don't know where he went. |
| 1:14.0 | But hopefully he returns because nobody took their eyes off that situation or this one. |
| 1:19.6 | A helicopter on a sightseeing tour yesterday crashed in New York City in, I think in the river, in the Hudson River, killed the pilot and a family of five tourists, |
| 1:29.2 | including, I think, three children, absolutely horrific in the second high-profile helicopter |
| 1:34.5 | crash while Donald Trump is president. |
| 1:37.9 | You know, you shouldn't blame him. |
| 1:39.3 | Do you think they'd blame Joe Biden or Barack Obama? |
| 1:42.4 | The House passed a Republican bill requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register |
| 1:47.8 | to vote in federal elections, despite non-citizens voting already being illegal and |
| 1:53.1 | extremely rare. |
| 1:54.6 | So they pass this law. |
| 1:55.9 | They've been trying to pass forever in the House at least. |
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