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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Single best idea, and it could have gone any number

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Speaker 2: of different ways. Yesterday we didn't do when I was

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Speaker 2: over at the Plaza Hotel, we did not get single

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Speaker 2: best idea done. If we had, we would have led

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Speaker 2: with a conversation with Admiral Mullen. Michael Mullen was piercing

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Speaker 2: in a lengthy conversation yesterday the former Chairman Joint Chief's

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Speaker 2: Staff on all sorts of Pentagon issues. We'll talk about

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Speaker 2: that with Ethan Browner in a moment today. Wendy Schiller

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Speaker 2: where this was brown University. She starts her fall semester there.

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Speaker 2: And international relations. Wendy Schiller on the state of European

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Speaker 2: politics and America.

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Speaker 1: I think that a lot of these leaders are still

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Speaker 1: somewhat stunned that America reelected Donald Trump. From the perspective,

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Speaker 1: I think that they, you know, they come from parliamentary systems,

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Speaker 1: as you well know, Tom, and in parliamentary systems, many

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Speaker 1: of those leaders have what we would call absolute power.

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Speaker 1: Right they have a party that elects them from the

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Speaker 1: legislative branch, and there all their ministers run things, and

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Speaker 1: that you know, the programs President proposes, you know, have

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Speaker 1: to go through Congress and be compromised with not In

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Speaker 1: parliamentary systems, the government owns the policy making outright. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're at all surprised that the executive

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Speaker 1: branch has become so powerful in American politics. I think

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Speaker 1: their surprise institutionally were set up so differently. How did

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Speaker 1: the president amass so much power over his own party

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Speaker 1: when they're not elected electrially connected the way all across.

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Speaker 2: Europe bruns It as simple as that. If you say,

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Speaker 2: why is Wendy Schiller famous within international relations? That is

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Speaker 2: what she's gifted at. Her textbooks are hugely acclaimed for

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Speaker 2: explaining the complexities of international relations simplistically. That was a

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Speaker 2: perfect DISCUSSI of something we don't understand, we take for

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Speaker 2: granted every day, which is the Madisonian American system. And

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Speaker 2: she says, guess what, they're all on a parliamentary system

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Speaker 2: and they so it's sort of like Game of Thrones

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Speaker 2: gone bad. But anyways, that was brilliant for Professor Schiller.

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Speaker 2: What a joy to have Ethan Bronner in our studios today.

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Speaker 2: Definitive at The New York Times, The Israeli Bureau chief

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Speaker 2: for Bloomberg Ethan Bronner, on the Senate, the House in

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Speaker 2: Washington and Israel.

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Speaker 3: It's shattering, and there is a concern, especially the Democratic side,

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Speaker 3: that it has lost its support for Israel. It has

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Speaker 3: only the republic ends of the Democrats that I forget

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Speaker 3: which what number, but a surprising number of them voted

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Speaker 3: to pose an impose an arms embargo for offensive arms

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Speaker 3: toward Gaza, and that's they're quite worried about that.

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Speaker 2: I got to get this question in Pul's two important

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Speaker 2: SI from Long Island emails in would President Harris do

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Speaker 2: anything different?

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Speaker 3: I think she would have done many things differently. I

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Speaker 3: don't think she would have unleashed Israel.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I think the more interesting question is would Israel have

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Speaker 3: done what it wanted to do anyway? And I think

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Speaker 3: it's a decent possibility that it would have been nearly

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Speaker 3: as militarily aggressive as it has been because it came

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Speaker 3: to the conclusion that it had no choice. Whether or

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Speaker 3: not you agree with that, but I'm certain that President

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Speaker 3: President Kamala Harris would have acted very differently towards this government.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Ethan Bronner in our studios in New York, riveting

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Speaker 2: here on the Mess. It's a very sophisticated word, but

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Speaker 2: I'll say it the Mess in Israel, on your podcast

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Speaker 2: on Apple and Spotify around the world, on YouTube podcasts

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Speaker 2: as well. It's single best idea