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March 05, 2018 The dance of the pro-Trump Republican with Senator Jim Risch
Sen. Jim Risch, the conservative Idaho Republican who now stands to take over Foreign Relations next year, joins The Global Politico to discuss his outlook on Trump's foreign policy. Risch shares his views on North Korea, the Russia investigations on Capitol Hill, the Iran Deal and Senator Bob Corker's relationship with the president.
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33 min
February 26, 2018 The Russian bots are coming. This bipartisan duo is on it.
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly are an unlikely bipartisan duo who teamed up a year ago on a Washington think tank project to combat the Kremlin’s influence campaign but now find themselves right in the midst of escalating American battles over the Mueller investigation, Trump, Russia and even the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting.
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48 min
February 19, 2018 Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter on the war America isn’t fighting
President Obama’s fourth secretary of defense joins The Global Politico to give his take on where we went wrong on the Russia hacking response, North Korea's nuclear capabilities and the importance of having a clear, unified military strategy.
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44 min
February 12, 2018 Kim Jong Un, North Korea's '10-foot-tall baby'
CIA veteran Jung Pak sits down with Susan Glasser to discuss what we're getting wrong about North Korea's infamous leader and why he's not the "mad man" President Trump has deemed him to be. Pak helps us understand how Kim's childhood in Switzerland has informed his world view and the unique challenges analysts face when trying to understand a leader that's so fiercely isolated.
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48 min
February 05, 2018 Victoria Nuland on ringing Russia alarm bell inside Obama administration
Victoria Nuland, former top State Department official, sits down with Susan Glasser to discuss what it was like to spend months in the middle of the U.S. government’s frustrating attempts to understand the Russian attack on the U.S. electoral system -- and then try to figure out how to respond to it.
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46 min
February 01, 2018 Bonus: The Gulf family feud (with Donald Trump in the middle)
Qatar’s defense minister Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah joins The Global Politico for his first extensive comments to a U.S. journalist since the small country's regional diplomatic crisis began. Al Attiyah and top officials came to Washington this week to seek help from the United States to end the blockade by all neighboring regions and restore peace to the Qatari citizens.
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29 min
January 29, 2018 Mark Warner on Russia: 'We've had new information that raises more questions'
Senator Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat who is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joins The Global Politico for an exclusive, in-depth briefing on the state of play in its investigation of the 2016 hacking of the American presidential election by Russia and whether President Trump and his campaign knew about it, or collaborated with it in any way.
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46 min
January 22, 2018 The man who put Andrew Jackson in Trump’s Oval Office
Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton. Mead sits down with Susan Glasser to explain the historical antecedents for Trump’s hostility toward free trade, establishment-bashing and embrace of a certain kind of chauvinist nationalism.
Mead also offers an intellectual framework to understand Trump at a time when others remained simply mystified by the president’s antagonism toward the fundamentals of the post-Cold War international order; rejection of alliances and allies; and disdain for international institutions and the robust capitalist world of free trade made possible by it all.

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42 min
January 15, 2018 How does Obama’s foreign policy look a year into Trump?
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and Obama's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes join The Global Politico to discuss their upcoming HBO documentary "The Final Year." They speak frankly about Obama's legacy, how aides misunderstood the rise of Trump, and how they're coping with an "America first" foreign policy.
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51 min
January 08, 2018 Is Trump stuck with Iran deal he loathes?
Leading Iran expert Suzanne Maloney and Iranian-born journalist Maziar Bahari join The Global Politico to discuss the Iran sanction deadline President Trump faces and how a wave of street protests are affecting his decision. Trump has called the agreement the "worst deal ever," yet many Iran experts expect that he'll keep the deal alive by waiving U.S. sanctions.
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52 min

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Power Play is POLITICO's new weekly transatlantic podcast hosted by renowned British journalist Anne McElvoy. It takes listeners inside the minds of those who wield power to better…