Ben lays out the significance of the elections and governmental shakeups in Israel, Colombia, and France and talks through the latest on the war in Ukraine. Then Ben talks with Alexei Navalny’s chief of staff Leonid Volkov in Copenhagen about Navalny’s fate, his media operation, and Putin’s propaganda machine. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click <a href="https://youtu.be/PFGT0ul5830">here</a>. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.
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Jesus take the wheel (before Trump does)

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