The Long Game with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer
Hosted by Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer · Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7from 801 ratings
- 49
- Episodes
- 46
- Transcribed
- 801
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About The Long Game with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer
The Long Game is a weekly national security podcast hosted by Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s National Security Advisor, and Jon Finer, his Principal Deputy—senior aides who sat in on the classified Presidential Daily Brief each morning and translated raw intelligence into policy advice. Each week, Jake and Jon will pull back the curtain on how power really works helping you make sense of the national security stories unfolding today. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
- Publisher
- Vox Media Podcast Network
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
46 of 49 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Trump After the Midterms: Iran, China, and the Limits of Power
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Same with the Soleimani strike. There were some who thought that that was a bad idea. He went ahead and did it anyway. During the interregnum period, we were picking up in our reporting that it was becoming more personal for him. His team was briefed by the FBI that Iran was trying to kill him. […]
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- Jonathan Swan
- Michael Kofman
- Barak Ravid
- Javier Blas
- Anne Applebaum
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 502 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 299 ratings
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