Global news roundup and North Korea
14 Nov 2018
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First, Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes about some major foreign policy news out of Israel, Trump's visit...
We won the House! What does it that mean for the world?
09 Nov 2018
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Tommy talks with foreign policy expert Jake Sullivan about what Democratic control of the House mean...
Saudi murders and the war in Yemen
31 Oct 2018
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Tommy talks with The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan about the international community's response to murder ...
Democrats Not Dictators
24 Oct 2018
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Tommy's in Philadelphia for HBO! So Ben Rhodes reviews the latest on Trump’s refusal to hold Saudi...
The Great British Breakdown Show
17 Oct 2018
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Tommy is in Austin with Beto O'Rourke for Pod Save America on HBO! So this week, Crooked contributor...
National security candidates
10 Oct 2018
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First, Tommy ticks through some major news about UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Saudi Arabia and Brazil....
Kim Jong-Un found love in a hopeless place
03 Oct 2018
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Tommy talks with the Washington Post's David Ignatius about Trump's visit to the UN general assembly...
Is the Mueller investigation doomed?
26 Sep 2018
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Tommy talks with The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand about how the potential departure of Deputy AG Rod ...
John Kerry: Recording for Duty
19 Sep 2018
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Tommy (with an assist from Jon Favreau) talks with former Secretary of State John Kerry about Iran, ...
War in Venezuela and Al Qaeda 17 years after 9/11
12 Sep 2018
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Tommy talks with new LA resident Ben Rhodes about the bizarre Trump NSC memo naming him leader of th...
Foreign lobbying and what Bob Woodward taught us about Trump's foreign policy
05 Sep 2018
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Two part show this week! First, Tommy talks with the Wall Street Journal's Julie Bykowicz about new...
Trump's racist South Africa conspiracy theory
29 Aug 2018
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Last week, President Trump tweeted about a segment on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show that claimed wh...
Revoking John Brennan's security clearance
22 Aug 2018
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Tommy talks with former acting CIA director Michael Morell about President Trump's decision to revok...
"Space Force all the way!"
15 Aug 2018
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Tommy talks with defense expert Katherine Charlet from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peac...
Devastation in Syria and Yemen
08 Aug 2018
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Tommy talks with VICE on HBO correspondent Isobel Yeung about her recent reporting trips to Raqqa, S...
Bassem Youssef: doctor, comedian, enemy of the Egyptian state
01 Aug 2018
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Tommy talks with Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef about his improbable path to comedy, fame, and bec...
Wanted by Putin and rage tweeting at Iran
25 Jul 2018
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Two part show today! First, Tommy talks with Ambassador Michael McFaul about Vladimir Putin's reques...
Trump's disastrous European vacation
18 Jul 2018
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Tommy talks with Julianne Smith, a former Pentagon official and advisor to Vice President Joe Biden,...
The politics of the World Cup with Roger Bennett
11 Jul 2018
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Today's episode is two parts. First, Tommy talks with Politico's Nahal Toosi about North Korea, NATO...
“Abdi American”
05 Jul 2018
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Tommy talks with Abdi Nor Iftin, the author of “Call Me American,” about his incredible story of...
Cyber war
29 Jun 2018
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Tommy talks with New York Times reporter David Sanger about the new world of cyber warfare. From Nor...
Hunting terrorists
19 Jun 2018
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Tommy talks with the outgoing National Counterterrorism Center chief Nick Rasmussen. Nick worked in ...
North Korea nothingburger?
13 Jun 2018
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Tommy talks with defense and Asia policy expert Kelly Magsamen about Trump's just-completed summit w...
Obama's legacy after Trump
06 Jun 2018
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Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes, author of the new book "The World as It Is", which documents Ben's eigh...
White House extremists
01 Jun 2018
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Tommy talks with journalist Mehdi Hasan about a troubling series of hires on Trump's National Secur...
Trump's hostage policy
23 May 2018
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Tommy talks with NewYorker.com executive editor David Rohde about the way Trump is handling - and sh...
North Korea and Gaza
17 May 2018
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Tommy talks with Washington Post reporter Anne Gearan about the on again, off again North Korea summ...
Trump shreds the Iran deal
08 May 2018
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Trump just tore up the Iran deal. Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes about what happens next. Then Tommy ta...
Ronan Farrow
02 May 2018
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Tommy talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author Ronan Farrow about his new book War on Peace and the...
The CIA's tortured history
27 Apr 2018
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Tommy talks with ACLU political director Faiz Shakir about the nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the...
Syria strikes and North Korea talks
18 Apr 2018
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Tommy talks with foreign policy expert Kelly Magsamen about Trump’s strikes on Syria’s chemical ...
Madeleine Albright’s warning about fascism
11 Apr 2018
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Tommy talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about the rise of fascism around the w...
Mr. Putin goes to Washington?
05 Apr 2018
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Tommy talks with New Yorker writer Robin Wright about Putin’s possible visit to Washington, his re...
Nowhere to hide: Facebook, encryption, and privacy
30 Mar 2018
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Tommy talks with Wired editor in chief Nick Thompson about the insane amount of data that Facebook a...
Fresh Prince of Saudi Arabia
22 Mar 2018
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Tommy talks with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salm...
The worst Secretary of State in history, Rex Tillerson
16 Mar 2018
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Tommy giddily discusses Rex Tillerson’s firing by tweet with Politico foreign affairs corresponden...
Can’t out-crazy Kim Jong-un
07 Mar 2018
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Tommy talks with Asia expert Danny Russel about reports that North Korea is willing to begin negotia...
The Deep State Strikes Back
02 Mar 2018
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Tommy talks with Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes about their new organization to oppose Trump’s forei...
Bribes, Bibi and the future of Israel
23 Feb 2018
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Tommy talks with Nathan Guttman, the Washington bureau chief of The Forward, about the corruption sc...
Nuclear-armed frenemies
16 Feb 2018
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Tommy talks with Steve Coll, author of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghan...
Held hostage in Syria
09 Feb 2018
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Tommy talks with war photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie about being held hostage by rebel fighters for...
Inching closer to nuclear war
02 Feb 2018
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Tommy talks with New York Times editor and writer Max Fisher about disconcerting signs that the Trum...
Why China loves Jared
26 Jan 2018
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Tommy talks with New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos about China’s frantic post-election efforts to...
Pod Save the World Live!
19 Jan 2018
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Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes, Ambassador Samantha Power and Greg Barker about the documentary The Fin...
The Terrorist Interrogator
12 Jan 2018
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Tommy talks with former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan about his work interrogating terrorists and i...
Iranian revolution
05 Jan 2018
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Tommy talks with former top Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes about the protests sweeping acro...
Drumbeat of war with North Korea
22 Dec 2017
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Tommy talks with Republican foreign policy expert Kori Schake about the eery similarity between the ...
Infiltrating al Qaeda
15 Dec 2017
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Tommy interviewed undercover FBI agent Tamer Elnoury about his work penetrating and disrupting an al...
Jerusalem went to Jared
08 Dec 2017
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Tommy talks with Politico’s foreign affairs correspondent Nahal Toosi about Trump’s controversia...
On the ground in Burma
01 Dec 2017
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Tommy talks with Senator Jeff Merkley about his fact-finding mission to Burma and Bangladesh to lear...
Mugabe is the George Washington of Zimbabwe
24 Nov 2017
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Tommy talks with Africa expert Ambassador Johnnie Carson about the coup in Zimbabwe that toppled Rob...
WTF happened in Lebanon and ISIS update
17 Nov 2017
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Tommy talks with Middle East and ISIS expert Rob Malley about the resignation of Lebanon’s Prime M...
Trump’s adventures in Asia
10 Nov 2017
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Tommy and Asia expert and career diplomat Danny Russel discuss President Trump’s five nation, 13 d...
Middle East Peace
01 Nov 2017
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Tommy talks with former Senator Majority Leader and US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mi...
Hunting Osama bin Laden
25 Oct 2017
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Tommy sits down with Michael Morell, the former acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. ...
A civil, bipartisan foreign policy discussion (aka clickbait)
18 Oct 2017
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Tommy talks with Republican Congressman and Air Force veteran Adam Kinzinger. They discuss Trump’s...
A republican critique of Trump’s foreign policy
11 Oct 2017
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Tommy and Eliot Cohen, a counselor to Condoleezza Rice during the Bush administration, talks about h...
Mystery attacks in Cuba and the man who ran the Navy
04 Oct 2017
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First, Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes about the mysterious attacks on our diplomats in Havana and the T...
The rise of the European far-right
27 Sep 2017
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Tommy talks with Europe expert Dr. Karen Donfried about the German elections and the rise of the far...
Crisis in Burma
20 Sep 2017
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Tommy talks with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof and Nexus Fund Executive Director Sally Smith...
Republican Congressman Will Hurd
13 Sep 2017
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Tommy talks with Will Hurd, a Republican representing Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, who ser...
War Policy
06 Sep 2017
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Tommy talks with former Lieutenant General and Ambassador to NATO Doug Lute about his six years mana...
North Korea update then the Army’s CEO
01 Sep 2017
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Tommy gets an update on North Korea’s latest provocations from Asia expert Evan Medeiros. Then he ...
Crisis in Venezuela
30 Aug 2017
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Tommy speaks former AP correspondent Hannah Dreier about the ongoing humanitarian and political cris...
Trump's new war plan
23 Aug 2017
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Tommy talks with defense policy expert Kelly Magsamen about President Trump's speech announcing his ...
Right-wing radicals and CIA secrets
16 Aug 2017
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Tommy talks with former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano about her efforts to combat ...
Emergency North Korea update then Putin’s #1 enemy
09 Aug 2017
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Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes talks through Trump’s promise of “fire and fu...
Are they gonna’ nuke us?
02 Aug 2017
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Tommy talks with former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken about the Iran deal, whether it’s w...
The worst humanitarian crisis since WWII
26 Jul 2017
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Tommy talks with David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and f...
Why did Putin do it?
19 Jul 2017
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Tommy talks with journalist and Russia expert Julia Ioffe about not if but why Putin interfered in o...
Russians, guns and Mosul
12 Jul 2017
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Tommy talks with former top defense official Derek Chollet about Donald Trump Jr.’s keystone cops ...
Ambassador Susan Rice
05 Jul 2017
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Tommy talks with former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice about her transition to civilian ...
Europe, Nukes, and Cybersecurity
21 Jun 2017
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Tommy talks with former Deputy Secretary of Energy, defense policy and Europe expert Dr. Elizabeth S...
Illegal Wars with Senator Tim Kaine
14 Jun 2017
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Tommy talks with Senator Tim Kaine about how it’s possible that sixteen years after the 9/11 attac...
NATO, mistakes we made in Libya, and lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
07 Jun 2017
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Tommy talks with former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder about Trump’s disastrous trip to NATO be...
Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns
31 May 2017
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Tommy talks with former Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns about his three decades at the State De...
Turkey and 28 Hours Pinned Down by ISIS with Arwa Damon
24 May 2017
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Tommy talks with CNN International correspondent Arwa Damon about Turkey's descent into a dictatorsh...
Love, Africa with Jeffrey Gettleman
16 May 2017
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Tommy and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times East Africa bureau chief Jeffrey Gett...
Trump Fired Jim Comey?!?
10 May 2017
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Tommy talks with former DOJ Official Matthew Miller about Trump's decision to fire FBI Director Jim ...
100 Days of foreign policy with Eli Lake
03 May 2017
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Tommy and Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake review Trump’s first 100 days on foreign policy. They cover...
What the hell is happening in France with Dr. Karen Donfried
26 Apr 2017
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Tommy talks with Europe expert Dr. Karen Donfried about the French Presidential elections and the ri...
Chief of Staff Stuff with Denis McDonough
19 Apr 2017
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Tommy talks with former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough about the Bin Laden operation, Ir...
The Russian Investigation with Senator Mark Warner
12 Apr 2017
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Senator Mark Warner talks with Tommy about why the Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russi...
Understanding the Syrian Civil War
10 Apr 2017
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Tommy and Middle East expert Colin Kahl discuss the Syrian civil war from when the protests first er...
China’s Rise with Evan Medeiros
05 Apr 2017
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Tommy and China expert Evan Medeiros preview Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Th...
Gayle Smith, former USAID Administrator
29 Mar 2017
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“Tommy is joined by Africa expert and former USAID Administrator Gayle Smith to discuss the crisis...
North Korean Nukes with Mark Lippert
22 Mar 2017
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Former US Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert talks about the threat from North Korea’s nuclear...
Snowden and Surveillance with Glenn Greenwald
15 Mar 2017
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Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald joins to respond to criticism of Edward Snowden and to discuss his ...
Of Russia with Love with Mike McFaul
08 Mar 2017
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Tommy and former US Ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul talk about the US-Russia relationship. We cover...
Running the State Department with Heather Higginbottom
01 Mar 2017
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Tommy and Heather Higginbottom to discuss her journey from political campaigns to becoming the first...
Scary Sh*t with Lisa Monaco
22 Feb 2017
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Tommy talks with Obama’s former Homeland Security and Chief Counterterrorism Advisor Lisa Monaco a...
8 Years in the Situation Room with Ben Rhodes
15 Feb 2017
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Tommy and Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes ...
Half the World with Dan Restrepo
08 Feb 2017
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Tommy is joined by Dan Restrepo, who served as a top Latin America advisor to President Obama. They ...
Secret Iran Talks with Jake Sullivan
01 Feb 2017
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Tommy is joined by former top Clinton aide and former Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan....
Pod Save the World Teaser Episode
27 Jan 2017
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"Pod Save the World" launches Wednesday, February 1st! Get tickets to CROOKED CON November 6-7 in W...