Episode 10: Inside the Obama Administration with former Deputy National Securi

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Ben Rhodes was one of President Obama’s most trusted foreign policy advisors, the author of many of his key foreign policy speeches, and Deputy National Security Advisor. In this episode we discuss the development of two signature international agreements of the Obama years—the Iran Deal and the Paris Accord—as well as the difficulty of securing Senate consent to treaties; the role of lawyers in the Obama White House; and the current tensions between the US and China.