Assad Spins His Surrender From Moscow

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the latest developments out of Syria, including the rebel leadership’s promises to disband and focus on building the state, international delegations and journalists making trips to Damascus, and Israel’s bombing campaign on Syrian territory and plans to build more settlements in the Golan Heights. They also talk about trouble for some of Trump’s cabinet nominees, concessions from Hamas in ceasefire negotiations, the impeachment of South Korea’s president, a no confidence vote in Germany, trouble for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Prince Andrew’s latest misadventure. Then, Tommy speaks to PBS NewsHour special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen from Aleppo, who gives an on the ground perspective from Syria.

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0:00.0	Welcome to POTTA of the World.
0:12.6	I'm Tommy Vitor.
0:13.5	Ben, less than a month until we're no longer under the nuclear umbrella of Joe Biden's administration.
0:20.4	How we feel? Well, it feels like it's already here, though.
0:23.8	Is Joe Biden still president?
0:25.4	You know, he's not out there, but he's still in charge.
0:27.8	He's still in charge, I guess.
0:29.4	Well, we'll find out on January 20th just how much it feels differently.
0:34.3	Yeah, it could feel real bad.
0:35.2	It's interesting watching Trump, you know, do all these events without any of the
0:38.8	responsibility. Like, you know, he still can comment on things like drones in New Jersey as if, you know,
0:45.6	he's just a guy online offering an opinion, not the President. You know, it's so annoying about him
0:50.7	and his supporters is they do that even when he's in charge. Like everything he is great and they're proud of him but anytime something bad happens like they blame the deep
0:58.3	state somehow he's not responsible well tries me nuts tries me absolutely nuts i know this is our
1:04.5	last show of the year i'm sad about it it's quite a year What a year. Who won the year?
1:12.1	Not us. Good guys or bad guys?
1:12.8	Not us.
1:13.4	I would say.
1:14.1	We did not win the year.
1:15.0	Bad guys.
1:15.8	Also, Ben, I think you have an important correction yet to make the top here.
1:19.2	This is the most painful thing I've ever done in Ponce of the world, which is I need
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