Venezuela's Stolen Election

Pod Save the World

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s attempt to hold on to power after losing Sunday’s election, the political debate over whether the US should sanction Venezuela, and what Vice President Harris should do in the next 100 days to pass the “Commander-in-Chief test.” They also talk about the escalating war between Israel and Hezbollah, Netanyahu’s disgraceful speech to Congress, Kamala Harris’s meeting with Netanyahu, far-right protests in Israel over an investigation into abuse of Palestinian detainees, and reports of a polio outbreak in Gaza. Then they go over evidence of UAE boots on the ground in Sudan, reports of an ambush of Wagner Group fighters in Mali, favorite moments from the Paris Olympics so far, and FOX news outrage over a misconstrued clip from the opening ceremony. Finally, Ben speaks to Phillip Gunson of the International Crisis Group about the situation on the ground in Venezuela following the election.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Pod's Day of the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Ben how you doing? You're on the road. I'm on the road. We've got a little family vacation here. So you know, doing the dad thing, which is fun.
0:25.0	Ben is in eastern Ukraine with the kids.
0:28.0	Yeah, we just figured we'd do a little domboss this year.
0:32.0	Just kidding. Just kidding kidding he's somewhere nice but it's good to see you
0:37.5	we got a big show today Ben got a lot of Olympics on the TV or are you guys like not like, you know, neck deep in the Olympics here.
0:44.4	I mean, swimming, gymnastics, crushed little fencing last night.
0:49.9	Oh, okay.
0:50.9	Watching a little fencing.
0:51.9	That was good. Those are my favorites, like the sports that you would never otherwise watch. Like every four years, you become an expert on the sport.
0:58.0	Oh, I love curling for that reason. Nothing goes better with curling than a couple edibles, but we'll get to that later in the show.
1:06.1	We're going to go deep on the Olympics Ben.
1:08.0	And we got a lot to cover today.
1:09.3	We got to start with the Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela
1:13.4	and President Maduro's efforts to cling to power
1:16.6	despite all evidence suggesting he lost.
1:19.4	We're gonna talk about how Vice President Harris
1:21.4	should campaign on foreign policy and national
1:23.4	security from now until election day. The latest from Israel and Gaza, Ben and I are
1:28.9	going to recap Beby net Yahoo's speech to a joint session of Congress from last week.
1:34.4	We got some news from Sudan, Mali, and the Olympics like I mentioned.
1:38.2	And then Ben, you did our interview earlier today.
1:40.1	What are folks going to hear?
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