Pod Save the World
“Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he got the education of a lifetime working for President Obama’s National Security Council. On “Pod Save the World,” he and former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes break down the latest global developments and bring you behind the scenes with the people who were there. New episodes every Wednesday. To get access to extended ad-free Pod Save The World episodes, sign up to be a Friends of the Pod member at crooked.com/friends
Trump’s Looming MAGA Military Purge
Trump’s National Security Team Takes Shape
Russian Interference Won’t Stop After Election Day
Election 2024: The Stark Choice on Climate Change?
North Korean “Storm Corps” Deploys to Russia
Election 2024: Cooperation, Competition, or War with China?
Trump Blames Zelensky for War, Sucks Up to Saudis
Election 2024: Israel, Gaza, and the Future of the Middle East
Trump Officials on an Iranian Hit List
Election 2024: Ukraine, Russia, and Whether the War Will End
One Year of War in the Middle East
Election 2024: What are the Stakes for Global Democracy?
Israel Invades Lebanon, Iran Attacks Israel
Israel Bombards Hezbollah in Lebanon
Israel Sends Exploding Pagers to Hezbollah
Republicans Blame Kamala Harris for Afghanistan Collapse
Hamas Executes Hostages, Israelis Protest Netanyahu
Telegram Founder Arrested in France
Gaza Protests and the DNC
Ukraine Invades Russia
Harris-Walz Ticket, A Russian Prisoner Exchange
Venezuela's Stolen Election
Breaking Down Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy
World Reacts to Trump Assassination Attempt
French Election Shock, NATO Descends on D.C.
UK Election Preview with David Lammy
Why Is Putin Going To North Korea?
Far Right Surges in European Elections
World Reacts to Trump’s Guilty Verdict
Norwegian Prime Minister Explains Decision to Recognize a Palestinian State
Introducing "Killing Justice"
Hamas and Netanyahu Accused of War Crimes
Biden Punishes China
Israel Begins Rafah Offensive (feat. Ali Velshi)
Tucker Carlson Interviews "Putin's Brain"
Gaza Protests Roil College Campuses
Breaking: Israel Strikes Back at Iran
Iran Attacks Israel
Biden Gives Israel An Ultimatum on Gaza
Can Saudi Money Whitewash a Murder?: World Corrupt Season 2, Episode 4
Israeli Strike Kills World Central Kitchen Staff in Gaza
Saudi Arabia: The New Home of Global Football: World Corrupt Season 2, Episode 3
How Will Putin Respond to an ISIS Attack? (feat. Bernie Sanders)
Saudi Arabia’s Despotic Ruler: World Corrupt Season 2, Episode 2
Trump Says Jewish Democrats “Hate Israel”
Football in the House of Saud: World Corrupt Season 2, Episode 1
Trump’s TikTok Flip Flop
World Corrupt Season 2: Trailer
Why is the US air dropping aid to Gaza?
CPAC Doubles Down on Creepy Autocrats
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 8: The Shit In The Frame
Can Ukraine Outlast Putin?
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 7: Lost And Found In Translation
Breaking: Putin Kills Alexei Navalny
Trump Tells Putin to Invade NATO Nations
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 6: The Great Moving Right Show
Tucker Carlson Goes to Moscow
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 5: Guangcheng’s Year of Living Famously
Will Biden Bomb Iran?
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 4: Coming To America
Netanyahu Rejects a Two-State Solution (again)
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 3: A Dissident Is Born
Biden Launches Airstrikes Against Houthis in Yemen
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 2: The Barefoot Lawyer
Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 1: Batman Gets Punched
How Israel’s War with Hamas Could Escalate Into a Regional Conflict
Introducing “Dissident At The Doorstep”
Zelensky's Plea To Congress
Henry Kissinger’s Complicated Legacy
How Long Will The Ceasefire In Gaza Hold?
Climate Special: A Look Ahead At COP28
Hospitals Under Siege In Gaza
One Month of War Between Israel and Hamas
The Israeli Ground Invasion Begins
America's Warning To Israel
Biden Heads To Israel
Breaking: Israel Tells Civilians In Gaza To Evacuate
What’s next for Israel and Gaza?
Hamas Goes To War With Israel
Will Republicans Kill Support For Ukraine?
Don’t Clap For Nazis
Canada Accuses India of Assassination
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Kim Jong Un and Putin’s Budding Bromance
Spain’s #MeToo moment?
Wagner Leader Prigozhin Killed?
Has Ukraine’s counteroffensive stalled?
Tripping Balls with Janet Yellen
Ukraine Sea Drones and Peace Talks
Russian War Crimes and a Coup in Niger
Israel’s Judicial Coup, and Samantha Power on Ukraine
Ukraine and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
NATO Grows on Russia’s Borders
Trump’s Self-incriminating Audio
A Russian Coup Against Putin? (Bonus Pod!)
Tony Blinken goes to China
How Trump’s Mar-a-lago Docs Endanger National Security
Did Ukraine bomb the Nord Stream pipeline?
Lindsey Graham’s Russian Arrest Warrant
The War Goes to Russia
Zelensky’s Secret War Plan
Defining Victory for Ukraine
Israel on the Brink
The Pope’s peace talks
Crisis in Sudan
21-year-old Pentagon leaker exposed
The Pentagon documents leak
The world watches Trump’s arrest
Netanyahu backs down
Is prosecuting presidents a good idea?
20 years after the invasion of Iraq
China’s Iran Deal
Who is poisoning girls in Iran?
Will China arm Putin?
One year of war in Ukraine
Biden goes to Ukraine
Alien Balloon Invasion
InflateGate: Biden vs Balloon
Israel attacks Iran
Tanks for Nothing
How to handle the Biden docs
Brazil's January 6th?
New year, old problems
“Can language be more inclusive?”
Understanding Iran
Brittney Griner is Home (with Jen Psaki)
Standing up to autocrats (and royals)
World Corrupt Episode 7: Stoppage Time!
Covid protests rock China
World Corrupt Episode 6: A Dystopian World Cup
Thanksgiving Mailbag!
Did Russia bomb Poland?
Hope from Brazil
World Corrupt Episode 5: A Call to Action
Bye Bye Bolsonaro
World Corrupt Episode 4: The Dark Side of the 2022 World Cup
The newest new British PM, with David Lammy
World Corrupt Episode 3: Qatar’s path to the World Cup
The British PM vs a head of lettuce
World Corrupt Episode 2: “The Most Corrupt Thing I’ve Ever Seen”
Chinese Communist Party Coachella
World Corrupt Episode 1: A Toxic Love Affair between Politics and Sports
Fighting for freedom in Iran
World Corrupt: Coming October 8th
Fighting fascists with Bernie Sanders
How Russia could lose the war
Ukraine's shocking counteroffensive
The life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
The new British Prime Minister
Who is winning the war in Ukraine?
Let Sanna Marin dance!
Adam Schiff on Trump's classified cache
The FBI raids Mar-a-Lago
Zawahiri is dead, Pelosi's in Taiwan
Introducing: Another Russia
China picks a fight with Pelosi
A fist bump to remember
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s assassination
Boris Johnson Brexits
Why Brexit still sucks
Jesus take the wheel (before Trump does)
Inside Navalny’s operation
Worldo Mailbag!
Justin Trudeau is in studio!
Ukraine and the global food crisis with Samantha Power
Biden (sort of?) pledges to defend Taiwan
The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Raining on Putin's Victory Day parade
Bill Gates on preventing the next pandemic
Au revoir Le Pen (for now)
The digital war in Ukraine
A chemical weapons attack in Ukraine?
War crimes in Ukraine
A Peace Deal in Ukraine?
Biden goes to NATO
Putin and Zelensky deliver messages to the world
How to be a Russian Oligarch
The rising cost of Putin’s war
Russia attacks civilians & a nuclear plant
Russia escalates the war in Ukraine
Special Report: On the Ground in Ukraine and Russia
Putin invades Ukraine
Emergency Pod: Brink of War in Ukraine
Putin’s Choice: War or Peace
Russia and China’s new world order
Understanding Putin
WTF is happening with Ukraine?
Pod Save America's Going On Tour!
Secretary of State Tony Blinken
Putin invades (but not where you thought)
Trump endorses a dictator
China 101
The Trump-Bibi Netanyahu bromance is dead
Biden’s Olympic Boycott
Rihanna replaces the Queen
What happened to Peng Shuai?
The case for invading Australia
Rhodes goes to Glasgow
The world gathers to fight climate change
Cocaine Hippos
We booked a Nobel Prize winner
Ted Lasso with a bone saw
Decoding the Pandora Papers
Jared Kushner is “Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit”
France is not amused
Who hid the nukes from Trump?
20 years after 9/11
What comes next for Afghanistan
The lessons we should learn from Afghanistan
A tragic end to 20 years in Afghanistan
Tucker’s all Orban has left
Tucker Carlson makes a fascist friend
Trump vs Team USA
Spyware for profit
An assassination in Haiti and protests in Cuba
World’s worst space race
Private mercenaries and naked sunbathers
Iranian elections and Justin Bieber’s state visit
Bye bye Bibi!
Joe's Eurovision 2021
Boris elopes, Bibi on the ropes (with Afua Hirsch)
Belarus hijacks a plane (and Samantha Power)
Time to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
Clashes in Israel and Gaza
Talks with Iran and covid in India
Fighting climate change, coronavirus, and capitalism
Putin's Power Plays
Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another?
Should America boycott the 2022 Olympics?
Israel Deadlocked, Suez Unblocked
Biden versus Putin
Vaccine diplomacy and Kushner bashing
Oprah upends the British Empire
President Biden, Saudi Arabia and human rights
Bobi Wine’s fight against a military dictatorship
Biden confronts the war in Afghanistan
Why Rihanna cares about the farmers' protests in India (and you should too)
The coup in Myanmar, explained
Putin's plush palace
The world Biden inherits
Samantha Power’s point
New year, new strain
Barack Obama, Worldo-in-Chief
Biden's controversial pick to run the Pentagon
Assassinations in Iran & Biden’s foreign policy team
A very Worldo mailbag
One last war for the road?
Trump lost, the world won
How the world sees our election
A Biden foreign policy
Rudy Giuliani's disinformation expo
North Korea debuts a massive new missile
COVID Commander-in-Chief
Trump’s foreign IOUs
Assassin-in-Chief
The Missing Peace
Trump’s military complex
From Putin to pandas with Karen Attiah
The RNC live from Jerusalem
Blockbuster Senate report on Russian election interference
Kamala Harris on the world stage
Explosions in Beirut
Ambassadors Gone Wild
Everything Mike Pompeo touches turns to sh*t
Dems in Congress push for a more progressive foreign policy
Trump’s cruel immigration policies
Russian bounties with Rep Adam Schiff
John Bolton’s sh*tty book
Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
Why policing is better abroad
The world is watching
False START
The corruption of Mike Pompeo
Flynnocent After Proven Guilty
Mercenaries invade Venezuela
TMZ at the DMZ
Kim Jong Un-healthy?
Samantha Power Hour
The Navy’s coronavirus clusterf*ck
How a virus can threaten democracy
A criminally negligent coronavirus response
Our new coronavirus reality
Coronavirus and oil shocks rock the global economy
A fragile peace deal in Afghanistan
Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy record comes under attack
Bloomberg’s foreign policy and the global economy gets the coronavirus
How the CIA broke the world’s encryption
Jared still sucks
Trump kills the Middle East peace process
That’s President Sh*thole to you
Iran and the lies we told along the way
Iran retaliates to the Soleimani strike
Trump goes to war with Iran
UK election aftermath
A history of failure in Afghanistan
NATO’s “brain death”
Panic at the Pentagon
Impeachmentpalooza
President Erdogan crashes the impeachment hearings
Breaking down the Baghdadi raid
Announcing: What A Day
LIVE from J Street
Bill Taylor’s got the Ukraine receipts
Send Rudy Giuliani to Syria
Abandoning our allies in Syria
Ukraine, corruption, and partners in crime
Impeach the mofo
Trump on Iran: Locked and Bloated
Bye Bye Bolton
Don’t look back in Brexit
What Worldos wanna know (Mailbag episode!)
Massive, global problems and the idiots trying to solve them
Dunking on Erdogan with Enes Kanter
Stopping domestic terrorism
Paging Moscow Mitch McConnell
A$AP Trumpy
Pour one out for the Iran deal
Ivanka the diplomat
Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
Iran and a hard place
Trump’s torched credibility on Iran
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech
A Kingdom United against Trump
Low IQ President visits Japan
Fox News loves war crimes
Please don’t bomb Iran
Threats from Iran and the time Ben met the Queen
Venezuela, Libya and the Russian navy's beluga whale
ISIS in Sri Lanka, cruelty to Cuba, Ukrainian elections
Assange arrested, Bernie's foreign policy, Bowe Bergdahl and Afghanistan
Israeli elections, Iran under fire and the IRA's history
Democracy resurgent in Europe(?) and Israeli elections
Brexit, fighting in Gaza, ISIS defeated(?) and eliminating nukes
White supremacists radicalized online
Brexit and is Dick Cheney good now? (no)
Antisemitism, the NSA, Khashoggi, then Fmr Dep Secretary of State Bill Burns
BONUS POD: North Korea summit
Trump's North Korea summit v.2, Venezuela, international LGBT rights
How former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon views the world
Ilhan Omar’s tweets spark a debate about anti-semitism
544 days in an Iranian prison
Who is President of Venezuela?
Brexit breakdown
Owned by Russia but itching to bomb Iran
New year, same problems
Foreign policy in 2019
The French President and General Flynn had a bad, bad week
U.S. policy towards Israel
The 2020 Democrats and foreign policy
War between Russia and Ukraine, Wikileaks, Brexit and more
Update on Jamal Khashoggi and monitoring right-wing extremism
Global news roundup and North Korea
We won the House! What does it that mean for the world?
Saudi murders and the war in Yemen
Democrats Not Dictators
The Great British Breakdown Show
National security candidates
Kim Jong-Un found love in a hopeless place
Is the Mueller investigation doomed?
John Kerry: Recording for Duty
War in Venezuela and Al Qaeda 17 years after 9/11
Foreign lobbying and what Bob Woodward taught us about Trump's foreign policy
Trump's racist South Africa conspiracy theory
Revoking John Brennan's security clearance
"Space Force all the way!"
Devastation in Syria and Yemen
Bassem Youssef: doctor, comedian, enemy of the Egyptian state
Wanted by Putin and rage tweeting at Iran
Trump's disastrous European vacation
The politics of the World Cup with Roger Bennett
“Abdi American”
Cyber war
Hunting terrorists
North Korea nothingburger?
Obama's legacy after Trump
White House extremists
Trump's hostage policy
North Korea and Gaza
Trump shreds the Iran deal
Ronan Farrow
The CIA's tortured history
Syria strikes and North Korea talks
Madeleine Albright’s warning about fascism
Mr. Putin goes to Washington?
Nowhere to hide: Facebook, encryption, and privacy
Fresh Prince of Saudi Arabia
The worst Secretary of State in history, Rex Tillerson
Can’t out-crazy Kim Jong-un
The Deep State Strikes Back
Bribes, Bibi and the future of Israel
Nuclear-armed frenemies
Held hostage in Syria
Inching closer to nuclear war
Why China loves Jared
Pod Save the World Live!
The Terrorist Interrogator
Iranian revolution
Drumbeat of war with North Korea
Infiltrating al Qaeda
Jerusalem went to Jared
On the ground in Burma
Mugabe is the George Washington of Zimbabwe
WTF happened in Lebanon and ISIS update
Trump’s adventures in Asia
Middle East Peace
Hunting Osama bin Laden
A civil, bipartisan foreign policy discussion (aka clickbait)
A republican critique of Trump’s foreign policy
Mystery attacks in Cuba and the man who ran the Navy
The rise of the European far-right
Crisis in Burma
Republican Congressman Will Hurd
War Policy
North Korea update then the Army’s CEO
Crisis in Venezuela
Trump's new war plan
Right-wing radicals and CIA secrets
Emergency North Korea update then Putin’s #1 enemy
Are they gonna’ nuke us?
The worst humanitarian crisis since WWII
Why did Putin do it?
Russians, guns and Mosul
Ambassador Susan Rice
Europe, Nukes, and Cybersecurity
Illegal Wars with Senator Tim Kaine
NATO, mistakes we made in Libya, and lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns
Turkey and 28 Hours Pinned Down by ISIS with Arwa Damon
Love, Africa with Jeffrey Gettleman
Trump Fired Jim Comey?!?
100 Days of foreign policy with Eli Lake
What the hell is happening in France with Dr. Karen Donfried
Chief of Staff Stuff with Denis McDonough
The Russian Investigation with Senator Mark Warner
Understanding the Syrian Civil War
China’s Rise with Evan Medeiros
Gayle Smith, former USAID Administrator
North Korean Nukes with Mark Lippert
Snowden and Surveillance with Glenn Greenwald
Of Russia with Love with Mike McFaul
Running the State Department with Heather Higginbottom
Scary Sh*t with Lisa Monaco
8 Years in the Situation Room with Ben Rhodes
Half the World with Dan Restrepo
Secret Iran Talks with Jake Sullivan