Everything Mike Pompeo touches turns to sh*t

Everything Mike Pompeo touches turns to sh*t

Democrats sound the alarm about foreign election interference. Experts say Israel and the US are responsible for mysterious explosions across Iran. Mike Pompeo uses taxpayer dollars to run for President. A fire on a US Navy ship has major implications. Lebanon’s economy nears collapse. The UAE launched a space craft. The White House threatens to prevent 92 million Chinese citizens from entering the US. A coronavirus update and some baseball news. Then Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy advisor Matt Duss joins to talk about lessons from the 2020 campaign and how to push for a smarter, more progressive foreign policy.

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Who hid the nukes from Trump?

Who hid the nukes from Trump?

Tommy and Ben talk about the national security news in Bob Woodward’s new book, some rare progress in nuclear talks with Iran, the latest on efforts to get the world vaccinated, why national security ...

15 Sep 20211h 7min

20 years after 9/11

20 years after 9/11

Tommy and Ben cover the latest from Afghanistan, right-wing protests in Brazil, a coup in Guinea, bitcoin in El Salvador, Biden’s immigration policy, big elections in Germany, Japan and Canada, and to...

8 Sep 20211h 27min

What comes next for Afghanistan

What comes next for Afghanistan

Tommy and Ben talk about the United States ending its war in Afghanistan as both countries navigate what comes next, what a visit from Israel’s prime minister can tell us about the future of the U.S.-...

1 Sep 202156min

The lessons we should learn from Afghanistan

The lessons we should learn from Afghanistan

Tommy and Ben cover the latest news from Afghanistan, including an update on the evacuation efforts, the threat from ISIS, the coming US political fight over refugees, the media coverage of the war an...

25 Aug 20211h 32min

A tragic end to 20 years in Afghanistan

A tragic end to 20 years in Afghanistan

Today’s episode is all about Afghanistan. Tommy and Ben cover President Biden’s decision to withdraw troops, the failure to process visas and get refugees out of the country, why the Afghan security f...

18 Aug 20211h 8min

Tucker’s all Orban has left

Tucker’s all Orban has left

Tommy and Ben talk about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, Mike Pompeo and the missing whisky, Sudan and Ethiopia, big climate change news, the US military’s new covid vaccine rule,...

11 Aug 20211h 6min

Tucker Carlson makes a fascist friend

Tucker Carlson makes a fascist friend

Tommy and Ben discuss the latest news from Afghanistan, Tucker Carlson’s adventures with fascists in Hungary, the state of US-Iran relations, the shortcomings of the global coronavirus vaccination cam...

4 Aug 20211h 10min

Trump vs Team USA

Trump vs Team USA

Tommy and Ben discuss the criminal charges against Trump’s inaugural committee chair Tom Barrack, President Biden's meeting with the prime minister of Iraq, why the Israeli government is attacking Ben...

28 Jul 20211h 10min

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