Interview top nonfiction authors about the latest work. All programs are also available as podcasts. Thanks for sitting down with me today, your book provides the interesting background and detail not just about your career and intelligence debates of the past but its very much relevant to the news of our current days. Its four years later, we are still fighting about russian interference in 2016, republicans and democrats are still debating about whether the investigations were handled property four years ago whether you of 2016, drew the right conclusions about russian acti action. Your book opens with a scene after the election, before the inauguration. Your breathing congressional leaders in going to new york to meet trump and his team. In the sharp partisan divide when you brief congress, describe that and talk about whether that was inevitable given the politics of our moment will could something have been done differently . I was asked to brief them we learned about what was doi
Were at a moment where our democracy is at stake, our leadership role in the world is at stake, the lives of tens of thousands of americans are on the line, lost to incompetence and callous leadership that could care less. We have got to change that. Good afternoon i am jonathan, their opinion writer for the Washington Post, welcome to Washington Post life, this is a special live recording of my opinion podcasts. In former president barack obama firstterm, this is the United States ambassador to the united nations. In the second term she was Obamas National Security advisor, today bryce is a private citizen, the author of tough love, my story of the things that we are fighting for and under serious consideration to be joe bidens Vice President ial running mate. Welcome back for the third time to the podcast ambassador susan rice. Thank you so much, it is great to be with you. One minute before we came on air, there was breaking news that the Trump Administration dropped plans to import
Officials disagreeing and disputing a New York Times report in early february 2017 claiming russian intelligence did have connections to the trump team when behind the scenes, the fbi was saying it had no reliable evidence whatsoever, no proof about whatsoever. Who was leaking not to destroy trump, why was the Mueller Probe launched, why did democrats like adam schiff and the media say for more than two years things like trump is a russian asset where they did not have that evidence whatsoever. U. S. Cities bracing for President Trumps decision next week to potentially send in federal Law Enforcement to stop the rise in shootings and homicides tonight, former nypd lieutenant is there to talk about senator leaders accept everything in their own bad policies. Joining usus washington time charles hurt on democrat chicago mayor slamming press secretary kelli t mcinerney calling her a quran for saint chicago needs to do more to stop homicide that are killing children and former Trump Deputy
But first, in this country we are rife with conflict and some considerable contradiction among our leaders. The radical dems thirsting for power in the guise of social justice, all of that being undercut in almost every instance by the reality, the lefts insistence on redefining the nation, for example, and shunning those who refuse to inform with their view of the world is often destroyed bier they own by their own leaders or their followers. Or their friends in the leftwing National Media. Or by wall street and the spineless rinos who have long abandoned any of the ideals they claim to stand for. For months weve been reporting on the lefts obsession with President Trump and his handling of the deadly china virus. We detailed their efforts to cover up chinas responsibility for unleashing the deadly contagion on an unsuspecting world. We told you about their unrelenting attempts to besmirch the trump administrations efforts to contain the virus as well as their panicked narrative used
But first, in this country we are rife with conflict and some considerable contradiction among our leaders. The radical dems thirsting for power in the guise of social justice, all of that being undercut in almost every instance by the reality, the lefts insistence on redefining the nation, for example, and shunning those who refuse to inform with their view of the world is often destroyed bier they own by their own leaders or their followers. Or their friends in the leftwing National Media. Or by wall street and the spineless rinos who have long abandoned any of the ideals they claim to stand for. For months weve been reporting on the lefts obsession with President Trump and his handling of the deadly china virus. We detailed their efforts to cover up chinas responsibility for unleashing the deadly contagion on an unsuspecting world. We told you about their unrelenting attempts to besmirch the trump administrations efforts to contain the virus as well as their panicked narrative used