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World Review: Impeachment Again, COVID-19, Biden's First 100 Days

Ivo Daalder talks with reporters from some of the world's leading media outlets about the week's most important global affairs news.
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About This Episode

This week the US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump again, while a new COVID-19 mutation continued to spread and alter vaccine distribution. Journalists Carol Giacomo, Carla Anne Robbins, and Giles Whittell join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss how the news will affect foreign policy and what to expect in Biden’s first 100 days on this week’s episode of "World Review."

About the Panelists
Freelance Journalist
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Carol Giacomo was a member of The New York Times editorial board from 2007 to 2020 writing opinion pieces about all major national security issues including nuclear weapons, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Prior to this role, she was a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in Washington for more than two decades. She served as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics in 2020.
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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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World Affairs Editor, Tortoise Media
Giles Whittell is an English author and journalist who has worked for the London Times as a correspondent in LA, Moscow, and Washington. He was the Times' chief leader-writer for three years before joining Tortoise Media in 2018.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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