Iran and the lies we told along the way

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben cover the latest developments in the Iran crisis, including why the intelligence and legal case for assassinating Soleimani keeps changing, the horrific shootdown of a commercial airliner, and Iran resuming uranium enrichment. Then they discuss Attorney General Barr’s fight with Apple over encryption, and why Obama also got this issue wrong. Finally, they explain why Taiwan’s recent election was good for democracy, the latest on the China trade war, how the Russians are STILL trying to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, and why 2020 Democrats are fighting about Iraq. Also Megxit. Then the Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian joins to discuss protests in Iran and what we actually know about what the Iranian people think.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Pottape the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.6	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Ben?
0:15.1	We're still talking about Iran.
0:16.7	Yes, although I think we have other subjects today, but...
0:19.9	Yeah, we're definitely talking about Iran.
0:21.6	My blood pressure is down significantly, but still elevated,
0:25.7	which I guess is par for the course in the Trump era.
0:28.0	On today's show, we'll do a bunch of updates on the Iran story
0:31.4	after the Soleimani strike, but we'll also talk about all these vacancies
0:35.0	among national security jobs in government.
0:37.2	It's pretty shocking when you see them all totaled up.
0:39.9	We'll talk about Taiwan's elections, which will count as some good news for democracy.
0:43.6	There's a big fight brewing between the Department of Justice
0:46.0	and Apple over encryption, and we'll dig into that,
0:48.6	because it's not a new fight.
0:50.6	China Trade Update, which Ben just pulled out a stack of paper
0:54.0	as you did homework.
0:55.4	Now I feel like an asshole.
0:57.1	The Russians are still hacking us with the goal of interfering in our 2020 elections.
1:01.1	Democrats are still fighting about the Iraq War,
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