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July 31, 2017 Episode 26: Why the Middle East hated Obama but loves Trump
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, fresh from a summit with Trump, explains a region in turmoil. The tone was measured, but taken together his comments amount to a striking and stark indictment of Obama and much recent U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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30 min
July 24, 2017 Episode 25: The Trump White House’s war within
Until a couple weeks ago Laurel Miller was America’s top diplomat charged with dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Miller joins The Global Politico for an exclusive interview on the State Department shutting down SRAP (the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan) and lays out the tale of the increasing dismemberment of the State Department under Trump and Tillerson.
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52 min
July 17, 2017 Episode 24: Don’t compare Trump to Nixon. It’s unfair to Nixon.
This week's guest, Elizabeth Drew, wrote the book, Washington Journal, as a real-time diary of how the American political world handled the spiraling Watergate investigations. Susan and Elizabeth discuss how Nixon is — and isn’t — like Trump, why our new president has already in her view committed an impeachable offense and whether Congress is up to the job of dealing with a constitutional crisis once again.
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49 min
July 10, 2017 Episode 23: Tom Donilon on the one thing Trump gets right about Obama and Russia
Tom Donilon, President Obama’s national security adviser and co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s national security transition team, makes a strong case for why who sits in the Situation Room really matters, why Donald Trump’s explosive new ways and foreign policy about-face from the Obama era may well have long-term consequences.
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1 hr 2 min
July 03, 2017 Episode 22: J.T. Rogers, foreign policy wonk meets playwright
J.T. Rogers is not a diplomat or a military officer or politician. He’s something most unusual in American public life: a playwright whose subject is world affairs — we call him America’s only foreign policy playwright — and he’s just won pretty much every award there is for his latest work, “Oslo,” a powerful look at the historic moment in 1993 when peace between Israel and the Palestinians seemed like it might really happen.
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58 min
June 26, 2017 Episode 21: Why Rep. Adam Kinzinger is raising ‘holy hell’ over Russia
Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger says he is prepared to wage a rebellion and raise “holy hell” in the face of new efforts by the White House and its allies to water down a bill enshrining into law tough sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s government. The measure—which passed overwhelmingly in the Senate—ran into trouble last week as Trump allies raised procedural roadblocks and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson complained the bill unduly ties the administration’s hands.
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35 min
June 19, 2017 Episode 20: Tom Malinowski on arguing with dictators and human rights in the Trump era
Tom Malinowski served on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff, then became Washington director of Human Rights Watch, and then for the last term of President Obama’s administration, as assistant secretary of state for human rights. In other words, he had a front row seat for the debate over whether and how we should intervene to help the millions of innocent civilians caught in the civil war in Syria, how we should respond to the Arab spring, to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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59 min
June 12, 2017 Episode 19: The shove heard round the world
A conversation with Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic about the shove he received from U.S. President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Brussels. Plus, a conversation with Damon Wilson of the Atlantic Council to lend context to the incident and on Montenegro's bid for and accession into the NATO alliance.
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52 min
June 05, 2017 Episode 18: A master class on Putin & Trump from legendary Russia hand, Strobe Talbott
Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott delves into Trump and Putin, Moscow and Washington, as we find ourselves consumed by the unlikely confluence of two stories that he happens to know more about than just about anybody. The former deputy secretary of State walks us through America's long and complicated relationship with Russia, and the impact Trump's relationship with Putin.
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50 min
May 28, 2017 Episode 17: Is Prime Minister Theresa May a British Hillary Clinton?
The Global Politico hits the road again, to the scene of last week’s terrorist attack in Manchester — as it caused an unprecedented halt to political campaigning just two weeks before the general election. And we’ll explore the backstory of Brexit, how it does and doesn’t compare with the populist wave that’s brought us Donald Trump in the United States and a host of political upheavals in other countries. Our guest for most the podcast is Steve Hilton, who was long a British political guru of the first ranks, once so close to former British Prime Minister David Cameron he was known as “David’s brain.”
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56 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…