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Speaker 2: Single best idea, and it could have gone any number
Speaker 2: of different ways. Yesterday we didn't do when I was
Speaker 2: over at the Plaza Hotel, we did not get single
Speaker 2: best idea done. If we had, we would have led
Speaker 2: with a conversation with Admiral Mullen. Michael Mullen was piercing
Speaker 2: in a lengthy conversation yesterday the former Chairman Joint Chief's
Speaker 2: Staff on all sorts of Pentagon issues. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: that with Ethan Browner in a moment today. Wendy Schiller
Speaker 2: where this was brown University. She starts her fall semester there.
Speaker 2: And international relations. Wendy Schiller on the state of European
Speaker 2: politics and America.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of these leaders are still
Speaker 1: somewhat stunned that America reelected Donald Trump. From the perspective,
Speaker 1: I think that they, you know, they come from parliamentary systems,
Speaker 1: as you well know, Tom, and in parliamentary systems, many
Speaker 1: of those leaders have what we would call absolute power.
Speaker 1: Right they have a party that elects them from the
Speaker 1: legislative branch, and there all their ministers run things, and
Speaker 1: that you know, the programs President proposes, you know, have
Speaker 1: to go through Congress and be compromised with not In
Speaker 1: parliamentary systems, the government owns the policy making outright. So
Speaker 1: I don't think they're at all surprised that the executive
Speaker 1: branch has become so powerful in American politics. I think
Speaker 1: their surprise institutionally were set up so differently. How did
Speaker 1: the president amass so much power over his own party
Speaker 1: when they're not elected electrially connected the way all across.
Speaker 2: Europe bruns It as simple as that. If you say,
Speaker 2: why is Wendy Schiller famous within international relations? That is
Speaker 2: what she's gifted at. Her textbooks are hugely acclaimed for
Speaker 2: explaining the complexities of international relations simplistically. That was a
Speaker 2: perfect DISCUSSI of something we don't understand, we take for
Speaker 2: granted every day, which is the Madisonian American system. And
Speaker 2: she says, guess what, they're all on a parliamentary system
Speaker 2: and they so it's sort of like Game of Thrones
Speaker 2: gone bad. But anyways, that was brilliant for Professor Schiller.
Speaker 2: What a joy to have Ethan Bronner in our studios today.
Speaker 2: Definitive at The New York Times, The Israeli Bureau chief
Speaker 2: for Bloomberg Ethan Bronner, on the Senate, the House in
Speaker 2: Washington and Israel.
Speaker 3: It's shattering, and there is a concern, especially the Democratic side,
Speaker 3: that it has lost its support for Israel. It has
Speaker 3: only the republic ends of the Democrats that I forget
Speaker 3: which what number, but a surprising number of them voted
Speaker 3: to pose an impose an arms embargo for offensive arms
Speaker 3: toward Gaza, and that's they're quite worried about that.
Speaker 2: I got to get this question in Pul's two important
Speaker 2: SI from Long Island emails in would President Harris do
Speaker 2: anything different?
Speaker 3: I think she would have done many things differently. I
Speaker 3: don't think she would have unleashed Israel.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I think the more interesting question is would Israel have
Speaker 3: done what it wanted to do anyway? And I think
Speaker 3: it's a decent possibility that it would have been nearly
Speaker 3: as militarily aggressive as it has been because it came
Speaker 3: to the conclusion that it had no choice. Whether or
Speaker 3: not you agree with that, but I'm certain that President
Speaker 3: President Kamala Harris would have acted very differently towards this government.
Speaker 2: Yes, Ethan Bronner in our studios in New York, riveting
Speaker 2: here on the Mess. It's a very sophisticated word, but
Speaker 2: I'll say it the Mess in Israel, on your podcast
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