When Edward Snowden happened, a lot of the tech companies called me and they said, can you believe this? And I said yeah, sure, you have all the information. Why wouldn't they spy on you? Of course, they're stealing it from you. So if they're actually doing the conspiracy and then people make up conspiracies, what do you do? Well, let's break it down a bit. In the case of the Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction, I was in the government then. The government got it wrong. It wasn't lying. People just got itwrong. Governments make mistakes. Individuals make mistakes. We recently made a mistake on managing inflation. 15 years ago
A year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and weeks after the presence of a Chinese spy balloon led U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to put off his Beijing visit, Kara and Nayeema talk about where the U.S. stands in the world and whether President Biden has the global coalition and momentum he claims. These are great questions for our guest today, Richard Haass. The foreign policy expert helms the Council on Foreign Relations and has had a long career in the Carter, Reagan and both Bush administrations as well as beyond working on intractable challenges from Northern Ireland to Iraq. Kara asks him why America’s global standing is on the decline, how Biden should deal with Xi and why his most recent book looks not to the rest of the world, but to our domestic problems.
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