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Jeet Heer discusses Trump's Vietnam problem in the Middle East, while Joanna Stern talks about her book on using AI.

The Nation’s Jeet Heer stops by to talk about Trump’s Vietnam problem in the Middle East. NBC News’ Joanna Stern joins us to discuss her new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Everything . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Molly Jong-Fast

Guests: Jeet Heer, Joanna Stern

Topics covered

• Trump
• Middle East
• AI
• politics
• journalism
• books

Keywords

• Trump
• Vietnam
• Middle East
• AI
• Joanna Stern
• Jeet Heer
• The Nation
• NBC News
• politics
• book

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBC News, The Nation

Books & works: I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Everything

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