Welcome back to Pazzy the world, I'm Ben Rhodes and we have.

Welcome back to Pazzy the world, I'm Ben Rhodes and we have in our Rotating guest

host the special privilege to welcome our producer. Alona Man...

I don't know what I mean. Do you want me to just say my name?

Alona Mankovsky, let's keep that in because it just speaks.

If you guys think that I only have problems with pronunciations of foreign leaders, Somebody I work with every day,

Elena Mikkovsky is here. She is the producer of the show,

but also a very accomplished journalist in her own right

with a, I don't want to say, long career

because you're still in the earlier stages of it.

An accomplished career on camera behind the camera.

So Alona, welcome a board here to the actual at the table.

Yeah, thank you. It's nice to sit on the table instead of just on the side at the couch.

I was going to ask you, do you have that thing where you watch us and just think I could be doing this better.

I think anybody who's ever, I myself, I don't want to say it's because obviously not

with Barack Obama that usually didn't happen but it can be painful to watch people that you've

prepared for things it can at times yeah well no let me put it this way do I

ever sit there on the couch and think like I know this foreign policy issue better than Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor.

You probably do.

Yeah, there's certain things.

Sometimes do I prepare, you know, interview questions for you guys and you just completely

go rogue and I'm sitting there fuming being like,

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