2025-10-30
56 分钟It's Tuesday, October 28, 2025, and welcome back to Goodfellows, at Hoover Institution Broadcast,
examining history, economics, and geopolitics, and a few other matters in the news.
I'm Bill Whelan, I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.
I'll be your moderator today, joined by two of my colleagues,
whom we jokingly refer to as Goodfellows.
That would be the economist, John Cochran,
and former Presidential National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General H.R.
McMaster.
Gentlemen, it's good to see you.
Hey,
great to see everybody HR especially good to see you your Philadelphia Phillies kind of unceremoniously exited from the playoffs and you disappear from the show I hope the two were not late How do you not go to first how do you how do you not go to first okay?
I don't want to talk about We will talk about that we have a few way to your issues of baseball to get in today a two-part show for you the second part of the show We're gonna go trick-or-treating Let me explain that.
I'm going to give you a series of issues, and you're going to tell me whether they are tricks,
as in bad news, or treats, as in good news.
But first, we're going to go to a topic that's a little less seasonal here on this show,
something we talk about year-round, and that is the Great Powers Competition.
And joining us for this discussion is our Hoover colleague, Michael McFall.
Mike McFaul is the Peter and Helen being senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution,
as well as a professor of political science and director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stafford University.
From January 2012 to February 2014, Mike McFaul served as US ambassador to the Russian Federation.