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“Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he go

Episodes

Total: 483

Owned by Russia but itching to bomb Iran
2019/1/16

First, Tommy and Ben discuss two stories about the Trump administration agitating to attack Iran. Th

New year, same problems
2019/1/9

First, Tommy talks with Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin about Trump's Syria flip flops and how he's dem

Foreign policy in 2019
2018/12/26

Tommy and Ben Rhodes talk about Trump pulling US troops out of Syria, the MLB and Cuba, and then tal

The French President and General Flynn had a bad, bad week
2018/12/19

Tommy and Ben Rhodes discuss General Flynn's trial and what the hell he was doing for the Turkish go

U.S. policy towards Israel
2018/12/12

Tommy and Ben Rhodes talk with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about his time in Israel

The 2020 Democrats and foreign policy
2018/12/5

First, Tommy and Ben talk through George H.W. Bush's foreign policy record, the good the bad and the

War between Russia and Ukraine, Wikileaks, Brexit and more
2018/11/28

First, Tommy talks with former US Ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul about fighting between Russia and

Update on Jamal Khashoggi and monitoring right-wing extremism
2018/11/21

First, Tommy talks with Karen Attiah, the Washington Post Global Opinions Editor who used to edit Ja

Global news roundup and North Korea
2018/11/14

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?
2018/11/9

Tommy talks with foreign policy expert Jake Sullivan about what Democratic control of the House mean

Saudi murders and the war in Yemen
2018/10/31

Tommy talks with The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan about the international community's response to murder

Democrats Not Dictators
2018/10/24

Tommy's in Philadelphia for HBO! So Ben Rhodes reviews the latest on Trump’s refusal to hold Saudi A

The Great British Breakdown Show
2018/10/17

Tommy is in Austin with Beto O'Rourke for Pod Save America on HBO! So this week, Crooked contributor

National security candidates
2018/10/10

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
2018/10/3

Tommy talks with the Washington Post's David Ignatius about Trump's visit to the UN general assembly

Is the Mueller investigation doomed?
2018/9/26

Tommy talks with The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand about how the potential departure of Deputy AG Rod

John Kerry: Recording for Duty
2018/9/19

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
2018/9/12

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
2018/9/5

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
2018/8/29

Last week, President Trump tweeted about a segment on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show that claimed wh