Episode 48: Eli Lake

Eli Lake is a longtime national security reporter known for breaking stories and ruffling feathers.

Lake, who now serves as a columnist for Bloomberg View, is the latest guest on The Jamie Weinstein Show podcast, where he evaluates the Trump administration’s foreign policy after year one, analyzes where the Russian investigation is heading, discusses his thoughts on foreign policy challenges around the world, and much more.

Show Roadmap

  • Is the world better off after Year 1 of the Trump administration?
  • What is the Trump Doctrine?
  • Where the Russia investigation is going?
  • Is there an American Deep State?
  • Lake discusses is journey to Axis of Evil countries
  • On the Egyptian Revolution, the Libyan intervention, what to do in North Korea and Syria, and whether Saudi Arabia is on the right path
  • On Christopher Hitchens, Sebastian Gorka, Steve Bannon, Michael Bloomberg and Matt Drudge
  • Lessons from Lake’s career
  • Lake on his influences and what story has been under-covered