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Hot Takes Happy Hour: Papal edition
Also on the menu: Trump’s deal with the Houthi’s, India and Pakistan are escalating to a dangerous place…and more
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A convenient truce
US-Houthi deal embodies President Trump's "America First" foreign policy
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A Crisis of Faith. And Not the Religious Kind.
What happens when an entire generation loses faith in democracy?
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Hot Takes Happy Hour: Foreign Policy in Trump’s First 100 Days
Elise Labott and Danielle Pletka pour Kviv Mules and discuss Ukraine, Mike Waltz, Iran, Canada, India and more.
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Elise Labott
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Democracy’s tipping point
Democracy scholar Larry Diamond on the US' "rapid slide" into authoritarianism
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Hot Takes Happy Hour

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31:54
Hot Takes Happy Hour: Papal edition
Also on the menu: Trump’s deal with the Houthi’s, India and Pakistan are escalating to a dangerous place…and more
 • 
Elise Labott
 and 
Danielle Pletka
32:17
Hot Takes Happy Hour: Foreign Policy in Trump’s First 100 Days
Elise Labott and Danielle Pletka pour Kviv Mules and discuss Ukraine, Mike Waltz, Iran, Canada, India and more.
 • 
Elise Labott
 and 
Danielle Pletka
33:32
Hot Takes Happy Hour with Elise Labott and Danielle Pletka
Dany and I talk WHCD, Pete Hesgeth, Ukraine and more.
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Elise Labott
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Danielle Pletka
30:41
Hot Takes Happy Hour with Elise and Dany
Iran deal redux, Trump wants to run Harvard and fire the Fed chair, And Elon Musk is...gross
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Elise Labott
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Danielle Pletka
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47:22
Hot Takes Happy Hour with Elise and Dany
A wild week of news has never been this fun
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