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Trump-Vance Ticket, Netanyahu in DC, EU Leadership

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Birnbaum, and Steven Erlagner join guest host Carla Anne Robbins to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump announced he would be selecting Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate. What does Vance’s background look like, and what does the Trump-Vance ticket mean for the world? Then, as war in Gaza continues, Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Biden in Washington DC next week and address a joint session of Congress. Plus, a look at the EU’s new leadership. Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Bernbaum, and Steven Erlanger join guest host Carla Anne Robbins to dive into these issues on this week’s episode of World Review.

 

About the Panelists
White House Reporter, The Washington Post
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Yasmeen Abutaleb is a White House reporter with The Washington Post. She joined in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy and covered the Trump and Biden administration responses to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services.
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National Security Reporter, The Washington Post
Michael Birnbaum
Michael Birnbaum is a national security reporter for The Washington Post, covering the State Department and diplomacy. He previously served in Europe for more than a decade as the The Post’s bureau chief in Brussels, Moscow and Berlin. He has reported for The Post from more than 40 countries, covering the conflict in Ukraine, the Egyptian revolution, the fall of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and the Arab Spring elsewhere in the Middle East.
Michael Birnbaum
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe, The New York Times
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Based out of Brussels, Belgium Steven Erlanger is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe for The New York Times. He's been reporting for the Times since 1987.
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Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
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Before joining CFR, Carla Anne Robbins was the deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. She is also faculty director of the MIA program at Baruch College's Marxe School.
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