David A. Graham
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
David A. Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've seen some pictures of bookshelves.
So it's meant to look very fancy and very high-minded.
We're still getting some of the details.
The big picture is that, you know, the president's security folks were concerned about threats from Iran related to the ongoing war.
and worried that flying in the Middle East, there might be some sort of danger.
And so instead of flying home on the plane that he took, he took one of these other planes.
They then flew to the UK and switched back to the Qatari 747 there.
And what we learned from reporting in The New York Times and some other places was that there was worries that the defense systems just are not all in place.
their elaborate like anti-missile defense and what else were not clear.
The sort of thing that I think for understandable reasons, government sources don't like to talk about, but they simply weren't installed yet.
And so in order to make sure that
The president and his advisers and the press travelling on the plane were safe.
They made the decision that he needed to fly on the older but safer plane.
I make of that that Trump is sort of trying to save face.
There's often a kind of spin in this situation, just as with the, you know, it would be stupid not to accept it.
He manages to find some sort of argument, which is not always all that convincing, but it allows him to dispute whatever else is being reported or whatever is apparent.
That's right.
So we learned that the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, was summoned to the White House because Trump was very upset about this leak about information.
And it's interesting.
Initially, the White House response was to say that it was fake news.
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