Welcome back to Pods Avalworld, this is Tommy VTour.

So we have a couple pieces to this show today.

Ben Rhodes and I recorded at a normal time at about 1pm on Tuesday and we talked about

all the fallout from Trump's decision to assassinate an Iranian general named Kassam Soleimani.

We talked about how the Iranian people were responding, why Trump is threatening to

commit war crimes, why the rationale for the strike keeps changing and what Congress

can do to stop the war from escalating.

We also talked about Kim Jong Un's announcement that North Korea plans to abandon constraints

on its nuclear program and how climate change has led to catastrophic fires across Australia.

And then our guest today is Middle East expert and former Bush Obama and Trump official

named Brett McGurk who talks about what the Soleimani assassination means for our

relationship with the Iraqis and our efforts to fight ISIS.

And then shortly after we finished reports came in that Iran had retaliated and actually

fired ballistic missiles from Iran at two bases where U.S. service members are living

and serving in Iraq.

So what you are going to hear first is an updated conversation between me and Ben about

that most recent news about Iran's retaliation.

And then we'll go to the rest of the show which frankly all is still relevant and all

is important context to understand what's happening and then you'll hear the Brett McGurk

interview.

One quick housekeeping item we got some big news here, Crooked Media.

The wilderness is back for 2020 and season two our friend John Favreau is going to look

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