Power Play
192 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 928 ratingsPower 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 understand the choices they face. The show features guests at the top of their fields in government, business, civil society and more — accompanied by the expert analysis of journalists across POLITICO's newsrooms globally, giving listeners the inside take on the most significant issues raised by the guest, as well as the implications. Read our show notes here: https://www.politico.eu/power-play-podcast/
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Episode 36: Tom Cotton, the Senate's Trump whisperer
October 09, 2017 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBArkansas Senator Tom Cotton sits down with Susan Glasser to discuss the role of President Trump's national security team and the course of action advisers should take if they disagree with the president, the senator's thinking on an Iran strategy, and how Trump's foreign policy is keeping in a bipartisan tradition that started with Truman in 1945.
Episode 35: Iran's Foreign Minister has some things he wants to say to Donald Trump
October 02, 2017 09:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBMohammed Javad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign Minister, joins The Global Politico this week. Zarif responds to President Trump’s public assault on the Iran nuclear deal, discusses the vetting process for his own Twitter feed, and reveals his take on a potential North Korean nuclear crisis.
Episode 34: Tony Blair says the left has lost its way
September 25, 2017 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBFormer Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair sits down with Susan Glasser in New York City to discuss the similarities between Brexit and Trump, negiotating peace in the Middle East and the populism of the far left.
Episode 34: Tony Blair says the left has lost its way
September 25, 2017 08:00 - 35 minutesFormer Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair sits down with Susan Glasser in New York City to discuss the similarities between Brexit and Trump, negiotating peace in the Middle East and the populism of the far left. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 33: Twitter Man vs. Rocket Man
September 18, 2017 10:48 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBThe Global Politico dives into North Korea this week with Admiral Dennis Blair, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, and Ambassador Chris Hill, the last senior American to negotiate with the North Koreans. With fire, fury and war panic reverberating across the country, Susan Glasser examines how worried Americans should be, the nuances of negotiating, and options for America's path forward.
Episode 32: Are Democrats more than the Party of Not Donald Trump?
September 11, 2017 09:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBOn this week's episode of The Global Politico, a group of leading Democrat leaders and strategists reconvene a year later to debate their election losses, the diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016, and how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it – yet they are just as consequential.
Episode 31: Dealing With Hurricane Trump, with Jeh Johnson
September 04, 2017 13:00 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBJeh Johnson, former Homeland Security chief, on the many crises, natural and otherwise, of the Trump era. President Trump has yet to name a replacement as secretary of Homeland Security. Not only that, he appears nowhere close to doing so and has not even interviewed any candidates for the job. Big mistake, argues Jeh Johnson, who served as the Obama administration's DHS chief until Trump's inauguration in January.
Episode 30: For all his fire and fury, Trump hasn’t changed much
August 28, 2017 09:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBA look back on the first seven months of the Trump administration, Susan Glasser walks through ten lessons we've learned about Donald Trump's foreign policy philosophy since he took office.
Episode 29: The new Cold War?
August 21, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBThis week The Global Politico examines whether America and Russia are really doomed to clash on the world stage, how we got Vladimir Putin so wrong — and what’s next for the Kremlin leader. Is it a new Cold War? Are we Russian hands too obsessed with making Putin and his country a boogie man in American politics today?
Episode 28: The Republican Party's war within
August 14, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThe Republican Party under President Trump is a party divided, one at war with itself. Torn between a leader who came to office vowing to drain the Washington swamp – and the swamp creatures in his own party who now run both houses of Congress. This week, The Global Politico convened two groups of Republicans - a group of party insiders here in Washington, the ones Trump and Company are throwing the bombs at, and a group of pro-Trump Republicans who want a war with Mitch McConnell and then so...
Episode 28: The Republican Party's war within
August 14, 2017 08:00 - 1 hourThe Republican Party under President Trump is a party divided, one at war with itself. Torn between a leader who came to office vowing to drain the Washington swamp – and the swamp creatures in his own party who now run both houses of Congress. This week, The Global Politico convened two groups of Republicans - a group of party insiders here in Washington, the ones Trump and Company are throwing the bombs at, and a group of pro-Trump Republicans who want a war with Mitch McConnell and then so...
Episode 27: What it's like to watch a democracy die in Venezuela
August 07, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBHannah Dreier joins The Global Politico this week to recount her experience covering the Venezuela crisis, as an AP correspondent. She takes listeners inside what it is like to live through complete upheaval and the crazy things you get used to when your home is falling apart. Hannah was robbed, snatched by the secret police and bought Cheerios on the black market. This is a story about an oil rich country that has lines for bread and milk and toilet paper, the world’s highest crime rate, the...
Episode 26: Why the Middle East hated Obama but loves Trump
July 31, 2017 10:04 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBLebanese 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.
Episode 25: The Trump White House’s war within
July 24, 2017 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBUntil 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.
Episode 24: Don’t compare Trump to Nixon. It’s unfair to Nixon.
July 17, 2017 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis 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. Subscribe to The Global Politico's Monday morning newsletter here: http://politi.c...
Episode 23: Tom Donilon on the one thing Trump gets right about Obama and Russia
July 10, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBTom 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.
Episode 22: J.T. Rogers, foreign policy wonk meets playwright
July 03, 2017 08:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBJ.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.
Episode 22: J.T. Rogers, foreign policy wonk meets playwright
July 03, 2017 08:00 - 57 minutesJ.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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 21: Why Rep. Adam Kinzinger is raising ‘holy hell’ over Russia
June 26, 2017 09:13 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBIllinois 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.
Episode 20: Tom Malinowski on arguing with dictators and human rights in the Trump era
June 19, 2017 03:57 - 58 minutes - 54 MBTom 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 Ukrai...
Episode 19: The shove heard round the world
June 12, 2017 03:09 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBA 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.
Episode 18: A master class on Putin & Trump from legendary Russia hand, Strobe Talbott
June 05, 2017 03:55 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBBrookings 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.
Episode 17: Is Prime Minister Theresa May a British Hillary Clinton?
May 28, 2017 22:54 - 55 minutes - 51 MBThe 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 o...
Episode 16: John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chief on Trump, Comey and his own email being hacked
May 22, 2017 02:40 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBIn an exclusive interview with Susan Glasser, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta blasts Donald Trump as unfit for office and predicts Trump's GOP enablers on Capitol Hill will stonewall the Russia hacking probe. As for the president's excuse that he fired Comey for mishandling last year's Clinton investigation? Laughable, really laughable, Podesta says.
Episode 15: Condoleezza Rice: American democracy will survive Trump
May 15, 2017 01:55 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledges her concerns about a president accused of eroding democracy at home and ignoring it abroad and says Trump, a novice in world affairs, has a “steeper learning curve than most” presidents. Rice also offers her personal revenge theory of Vladimir Putin’s 2016 U.S. election hacking, says she’s not going to serve as Trump’s FBI director, and tells the backstory of how she met Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Bonus episode: How France’s new president will change the world
May 08, 2017 17:04 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBPOLITICO’s European colleagues Nicholas Vinocur in Paris and Ryan Heath in Brussels join Susan Glasser for a special edition of the Global Politico. The group delves into how Emmanuel Macron has just pulled off a great political upset, winning the presidency of France in a landslide little more than a year after creating his own political party. Call him a political entrepreneur, a thirtysomething outsider, a disruptor on a par with Donald Trump. But he’s also the ultimate establishment figur...
Episode 14: The resistance will be tweeted with Sen. Chris Murphy
May 08, 2017 03:52 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBThe Connecticut senator has emerged as a leader of the national resistance to President Trump — and a foreign policy wonk with a lot to say about the world. The Democrat talks Clinton and Comey, the White House’s dictator problem and why the Saudis aren’t our friends – plus what he’s learned about Twitter trolling a president.
Episode 13: Sweden's Carl Bildt on Europe vs. Trump
May 01, 2017 02:48 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB"They thought the man had gone bananas": a conversation on Trump and why Europe sees him as a threat to rival Putin with Sweden’s Carl Bildt
Episode 12: ‘I think there is a fantastic opportunity here’ Paul Wolfowitz on Trump’s foreign policy
April 24, 2017 09:46 - 49 minutes - 39.5 MBIn an exclusive for The Global POLITICO, Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the Iraq war, talks Trump, Iraq and his fears the country could descend into “chaotic violence” all over again, and the need for America to step back up in the melting down Middle East. An original #nevertrumper, hehe says he’s now seeing “fantastic opportunity” in Trump’s newly assertive foreign policy.
Episode 11: Inside Trump’s NSC with Michael Anton
April 17, 2017 00:05 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBMichael Anton wrote inflammatory essays backing Trump during last year’s campaign. Now he’s in charge of explaining Trump’s keep-em-guessing foreign policy at Trump’s NSC. In an exclusive interview with Susan Glasser’s Global POLITICO podcast, Anton talks Syria, North Korea, Steve Bannon — and the virtues of Trump’s unpredictability. Not to mention who’s best dressed in the White House, and why his intellectual hero Machiavelli would approve of the president.
Episode 10: Andrea Mitchell on Trump's media wars
April 10, 2017 03:33 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBAfter President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton’s P.R. Person,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has some choice words for him too. In an exclusive interview for The Global Politico, Mitchell says “I’ve never seen anything like” the flat-out lies of the Trump White House, with the briefing room being used to “mislead or misdirect or obfuscate.”
Episode 9: "This theory we didn't do anything" Lisa Monaco on Obama & the Russia hack
April 03, 2017 04:19 - 59 minutes - 47.8 MBObama’s top homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco talks about the Russia hacking of 2016 and whether the White House should have talked more publicly about it before the election. Plus: her thoughts on how Trump is undoing their counterterrorism policies “with the stroke of a pen."
Episode 8: The man who would beat Bibi: Israel's Yair Lapid
March 24, 2017 02:03 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBDonald Trump wants to team up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make the deal of the century between Israel and the Palestinians. But what if a Trumpian TV star-turned-politician gets Netanyahu first? Israel's leading opposition politician Yair Lapid joins The Global Politico this week.
Episode 7: A Russia trap? Masha Gessen on Trump, Putin and what really to worry about
March 20, 2017 02:20 - 49 minutes - 40 MBAre the spiraling investigations around Trump and Russia “a conspiracy trap”? How much is Trump like President Putin after all? Russia-born author and journalist Masha Gessen joins The Global POLITICO this week to talk about the strange confluence of these two leaders — and what we should really be afraid of when it comes to these two nuclear-armed tough guys.
Episode 6: Can Iraq survive Trump?
March 13, 2017 02:54 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MBThe Global POLITICO hits the road this week, traveling to Kurdistan to talk to Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani about the the raging battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, the “failure of Iraqi politics” — and what America First means to the Middle East. “We are fighting a war of survival,” he says, and the outcome isn’t at all clear.
Episode 5: Dan Fried, America's longest-serving diplomat
March 05, 2017 23:38 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBAmerica’s most senior diplomat just hit the exits from Trump’s melting down State Department after 40 years of being the man in the room when Russia was involved. Daniel Fried reveals what he would have told Trump about Putin — if he’d asked — plus what he saw up close as Clinton, Bush and Obama struggled with the KGB man in the Kremlin.
Episode 4: Alpha Ladies: Madeleine Albright, Michele Flournoy and Wendy Sherman
February 26, 2017 22:55 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThe foreign policy powerhouses respond to President Trump's macho national security policy; the ladies delve into the world's view of the United States, the consequences of not having women negiotating at the table and why millennials give them hope for the future.
Episode 3: Congressman Adam Schiff
February 20, 2017 10:50 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBRep. Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, says President Trump has a “pathological unwillingness to criticize anything the Kremlin does.” Schiff is one of the leading Democrats calling for a more serious investigation of Trump’s mysterious ties to Russia. He opens up about his security concerns, the importance of intelligence and using dark humor on Twitter to connect.
Bonus episode: Dan Shapiro
February 15, 2017 03:47 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to DC to kick off a new better era after his rocky dealings with President Obama. Then Trump’s White House melted down. Longtime US ambassador Dan Shapiro, who served as Obama’s top Israel adviser throughout his presidency and sat in on all of his meetings with Bibi, takes us inside the mess.
Episode 2: Senator Bob Corker
February 09, 2017 15:22 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBThe chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sits down with Susan Glasser for an exclusive interview on his disagreements with Trump-and how he views a White House torn between deals and disruption The Global Politico takes listeners backstage in a disrupted world, interviewing leaders around the globe who can help make sense of an international environment that can seem out of control. New episodes every Monday.
Episode 1: Jim Baker
February 06, 2017 03:30 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBPOLITICO's Susan Glasser sits down with former Secretary of State Jim Baker to discuss his take on President Donald Trump's immigration policies, what he learned from the Reagan White House and more. The Global Politico will take listeners backstage in a disrupted world, interviewing leaders around the globe who can help make sense of an international environment that can seem out of control. The podcast skips the punditry in favor of candid conversations about global politics with those who ...
Coming Soon: The Global Politico with Susan Glasser
February 03, 2017 14:55 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBEach week, POLITICO’s Susan Glasser will go backstage in a world disrupted, interviewing leaders in Washington — and around the globe — who can help us understand an international scene that can seem like it’s spinning out of control. The podcast will skip the punditry to feature candid, revealing, news-making conversations about global politics with those who are helping shape it; you can subscribe to it on iTunes or find it on www.politico.com.