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.Susan Glasser on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance at a Senate hearing on COVID origins: “I found it very painful to watch, as I'm sure many people did. The person who was accountable ultimately for America's failed initial handling of the pandemic in 2020 was someone named Donald Trump.”
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How does the U.S. win in Iran? Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف: “There aren’t great options for the president. … I don't know what winning is, but I also don't know what is a viable option that creates an exit ramp, or an off-ramp, for him to declare some kind of victory.”
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Why is JD Vance going to Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal with Iran? "This will be the most senior in-person discussion between America and Iran since the 1979 revolution," said Karim Sadjadpour. "The Iranians actually requested to negotiate with JD Vance for a few reasons."
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"I'm going to confess something on your show, Jeff. I have no sources in this administration," said Thomas L. Friedman. "Having sources in this administration other than the president would be dangerous because ... Trump can go absolute 180 degrees the opposite the next day."
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"With Kash Patel, though we should be clear, there’s not exactly been a vociferous defense from the president for the FBI director, but he also still has his job, despite questions about his job performance, including those raised within the ranks of the FBI," said Jonathan Lemire.
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.Peter Baker: "If you woke up on January 7th of 2021 with the glass still shattered on the floor of the Capitol and the smoke rising and the troops are surrounding the building, and you had said that Donald Trump will be president in 4 years, nobody would have believed that."
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"Iran didn't win the military conflict. They got set back significantly, their missile program got set back significantly, ... the nuclear program, clearly set back. But they won the peace negotiation," Jonathan Karl tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
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Why did President Trump first disavow Project 2025 but later hire Russell Vought to lead the OMB? "Because it was incredibly unpopular during the campaign trail, and there was polling that showed that and that voters weren't necessarily aligned with this," said Laura Barrón-López.
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!["Putin doesn’t name buildings after himself," said Franklin Foer. "The only leaders in the world who do this are in places like Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. There’s a tin-pot dictator quality to what [Trump is] doing and how he’s afflicting his insecurities on the world."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2002188818594537788/media/G8k0Gh-XkAAnNDv.jpg)
"Putin doesn’t name buildings after himself," said Franklin Foer. "The only leaders in the world who do this are in places like Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. There’s a tin-pot dictator quality to what [Trump is] doing and how he’s afflicting his insecurities on the world."
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.Jake Tapper 🦅: "There were two Joe Bidens. There was the fine Joe Biden that we just saw in that clip right there, and then there was the non-functioning Biden that we saw during the debate." Alex Thompson: "They were propping up the best version of him."
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.Jeffrey Goldberg: What would a Ukrainian defeat look like from an American national security perspective? Anne Applebaum: "Defeat means the elimination of the U.S. as a security guarantor for Europe. It means that the U.S. is no longer seen as a reliable ally by anybody."
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"It's almost as if the Trump administration doesn't want to admit or can't understand that the war only ends when the pressure is put on Russia," said Anne Applebaum. "It's the most obvious solution to the problem, and it's the one they just won't take."
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The assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk this week has raised questions about escalating political violence in America. Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panelists discussed Kirk’s role and influence within President Trump's MAGA movement.
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"Peter and I lived through Vladimir Putin's rollback of Russian democracy 20 years ago ... and the time to defend democratic institutions is before they're taken away," says Susan Glasser. "I don't think that people have really processed how quickly this can happen."
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"For the previous 15 years, just the mere thought of the United States striking Iran, even in a single bout of airstrikes, was considered to be one of the major debates that engaged foreign policy over and over again," said Susan Glasser.
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!["Nineteen minutes long, that address was from the White House. It really was basically a 19-minute-long Truth Social post instead of a meaningful strategy for why [Trump has] taken such a consequential decision that has plunged the global economy into turmoil," said Susan Glasser.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2040220140948570224/media/HFBRY4UWcAEby90.jpg)
"Nineteen minutes long, that address was from the White House. It really was basically a 19-minute-long Truth Social post instead of a meaningful strategy for why [Trump has] taken such a consequential decision that has plunged the global economy into turmoil," said Susan Glasser.
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"The lesson that Iran learned in the last four months is that you gain concessions from the U.S. by punching back at them hard, by closing the Strait of Hormuz, by attacking your neighbors, & unfortunately I don't think this MOU has resolved the nuclear issue," Karim Sadjadpour says.
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!["Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has a pretty realistic view of [the Iran war]. He told them from the beginning it wouldn't be as easy as the president said it was," said Peter Baker.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2052912209282351309/media/HH1qG6lX0Akr5uQ.jpg)
![.Stephen Hayes: "It has been widely reported that Donald Trump was down on [Tulsi Gabbard], and there's nothing you can do ... that will get you back in his good graces sooner and faster than going and supporting his crazy arguments about the 2020 election having been stolen."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2017412135387574354/media/G_9JoNoWwAA-Jzp.jpg)
.Stephen Hayes: "It has been widely reported that Donald Trump was down on [Tulsi Gabbard], and there's nothing you can do ... that will get you back in his good graces sooner and faster than going and supporting his crazy arguments about the 2020 election having been stolen."
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