NATO’s “brain death”

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about Trump’s trip to London for the NATO summit, including his dustup with the French President and the health of NATO in 2019. Then they discuss the Iranian government’s crackdown on protestors, Trump’s visit to Afghanistan, Ben’s trip to Hong Kong, the expanding trade war, amazing reporting about India’s Prime Minister, and why US foreign aid keeps getting mysteriously frozen. Then The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan joins to talk about the upcoming British parliamentary elections, the London Bridge attack, and Brexit.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to PodSave the World. I'm Tommy Dittor.
0:12.7	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Ben? Actually here.
0:14.5	Great to see you, man.
0:15.7	I'm a manager still completely jet lagged.
0:18.0	A little bit.
0:18.8	When you're completely flipped over like that, Nasia,
0:21.5	it's like an extreme body challenge.
0:23.2	Yeah.
0:24.1	Take the world us to the world though.
0:25.4	Yeah.
0:25.8	It's good for the show.
0:26.6	So we're going to talk about a bunch of great stuff today.
0:29.2	President Trump is in London for the NATO summit.
0:32.0	So we'll check in on how that trip's going.
0:34.0	I'm sure it's going great.
0:34.8	Yeah, the Iran protests that we've talked about previously
0:37.2	have turned ugly.
0:38.4	I also want to get into Trump's visit to Afghanistan
0:40.9	and the policy question swirling around about our presence there.
0:44.0	When you hear all about your trip to Hong Kong,
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