Mike talks with Alexander Ward, a national security reporter at Politico and anchor of National Security Daily. He’s the author of the recently released book, The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump, which they discuss on this episode.

Topics Mike and Alexander Cover Include:

- why post-Trump foreign policy needed restoration

- comparing Biden and Trump’s Secretaries of State

- Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan

- meeting the rising threat from China

- Russia and the war in Ukraine

- Middle East policy

- North Korea

- climate change

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