Welcome back to Pate the World. This is Tommy DeTour. We had a fantastic show for you guys today.

We are going to talk about a wild week over at the Pentagon with the firing of the secretary of the Navy

and President Trump seemingly getting involved in the most minute details of their military justice system.

We are going to talk about impeachment and whether John Bolton should be a part of this process and will be compelled to be.

Talk about some really momentous elections in Hong Kong and what they mean about the future of that protest movement and Beijing's ability to project power into the area.

We are going to talk about President Trump for some reason trying to extort our allies in Japan for more money to allow us to keep 54,000 US service members in Japan

and really critical piece of our Asia for structure that he's for some reason trying to unravel.

And then we are going to talk about the ISIS mission in Syria. My guest today is Gaiyur Rosenberg from Tablet Magazine.

He's going to walk us through what the hell is going on with BB Netanyahu because he was just indicted on three separate cases.

Israel is in the midst of just political turmoil. There have been two elections this year. The government formation process is not done yet.

No one knows what's going to happen but it could be a momentous change in Israel. So I'm really excited to talk with him.

My guest host today is Kelly Magzeman. You guys have heard her several times before. She's the vice president of national security and international policy at Center for American Progress.

But she's also an incredibly accomplished foreign policy expert who's worked at the State Department of Pentagon and the White House with us.

Ben is on his way back from Hong Kong. So he will fill us in on all those travels next week. But until then I'm thrilled to have Kelly.

So one little personal note here. Well, two actually. One, if you don't mind, if you want to help save the Republic, if you don't want to let Stacey Abrams down, please go to votesafeamerica.com slash verify.

If you can chip in even five bucks to help her put election protection teams into all the key swing states. It's maybe the most important thing we could do to help us win in 2020.

The other thing is my second episode of my Iowa series is out. It's on the Potsay of America feed. It dropped on Tuesday.

If you want to learn about all the cool history behind why Iowa is first in the nominating process. If you want to hear the rules of the caucuses, we'll actually take you to one in Paul County.

And you can hear what it's like to actually be there. This is from 2016. And then lastly, you will hear from undecided voters. You'll meet with our field organizers again.

I think it's my favorite episode we've done so far. And so I would love it if you guys would give it a shot and share it if you enjoy it.

So without any further ado, let's go full world though. And here's Kelly, Max.

Kelly, thank you again for doing the show. It'd be here great to have you back. Um, okay, Max weird weekend over at the Pentagon,

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