Welcome back to PodSave the World, I'm Tommy Vittor and Ben has left me all alone in the

studio to be anxious by myself on debate day. Actually there's lots of great people in

the studio. You can't see them because they're not on this little camera right now, but don't worry

Ben's taken a week off a much-deserved break, but we have an amazing show for you today. Thanks to the magic of Zoom. It's going to be two parts. So I just

talked with my former colleague Colin Call. He was Biden's national security

advisor when Biden was the vice president. Then Collins served as a top Pentagon official

until last year.

We tick through some of the biggest security challenges

around the globe, from Iraq to Ukraine, Afghanistan, especially Republican efforts to pin everything bad

that happened in Afghanistan on Vice President Harris now. We also talked about the growing

security threat from Islamic extremist groups in northern Africa.

Then we talked about BB Netanyahu's arguments about what he needs to defeat ISIS

and whether he really needs control of an area called the Philadelphia Corridor, which is that border region between

Gaza and Egypt.

So fascinating conversation with a real defense policy expert who was in a lot of the meetings about Ukraine, about Iraq, about

Afghanistan where the decisions were now debating were made.

And then you will hear my conversation with a truly excellent reporter named Vera Bergen-Gruin.

She recently interviewed two of the most bizarre, fascinating, and in some cases very popular leaders in Latin America,

Javier Mille in Argentina and Naiy Bukale in El Salvador.

We talk about those guys, what it was like to interview them, how their policies are going, why they're

so popular, and then just the rise of right-wing populism generally.

And we also talked about Russian propaganda efforts in the US and their attempts to pay off some of the

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