David E. Sanger
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1,917 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
David E. Sanger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, that didn't take that long for that to fall apart.
In fact, it was only last week as the shooting was starting again in the Strait that President Trump called those same leaders scum.
Right.
And said, they're sick people, they're led by sick people, and they're vicious, violent people.
And as far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them.
He did.
He said it's over, but that negotiations could keep going on.
Now, I don't know how you do those two parts, because the ceasefire was essentially one of the legs of the stool that kept everything together while they did this bigger negotiation.
And today, that leg's been kicked out.
And if anything, Rachel, we are now as far apart as we were before the Memorandum of Understanding was signed.
Because we're back to a blockade of all traffic going in and out of Iranian ports.
In other words, an effort to try to starve out the Iranians by cutting off their oil revenue.
We're back to a position where the U.S.
Navy is stuck in the strait and there's active fire.
And while we're not bombing the entire country the way the U.S.
was in March and the beginning of April...
We are back to a period of on and off hostility, neither war nor peace, but certainly a situation that the president will find very difficult to extricate himself from.
Well, this has never really been a true negotiation where you sit down at the table and have a back and forth.
And, you know, for all of the critiques of the Obama era deal, at least at that time, the chief negotiator for the United States, Wendy Sherman, sat down opposite Trump.
her counterpart in the Iranian leadership.
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