David Sanger
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478 appearances
12 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Jun
David Sanger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Messages are being passed through Pakistan and Qatar.
They then go to Iran, get put in the hands of couriers, and get taken to the new supreme leader, who is in hiding, fearing that the Israelis are looking to kill him the way they killed his father, his wife, and the rest of his family.
And on top of that, we keep hearing about changes to the text.
At the end of last week, we understand that President Trump added some new wording, trying to toughen up what happens to all of Iran's nuclear material.
But that only encourages the Iranians to do the same thing, pulling in the other direction.
I'm David Sanger.
I cover the White House and national security at The New York Times.
A good deal of reporting is still about serendipity.
I've done this for four decades now.
You build up experience that gives you a sense of how to be in the right place at the right time.
I happened to be at the White House one day when a somewhat chance encounter with President Trump led to our four-hour-long interview that gave us a real vision into how the president thinks about using power and whether there are any limits on his own capabilities.
My colleagues and I try to explain not only what's happening, but why it's happening.
Not by word of mouth, but by actually being there.
Questioning, reporting, uncovering realities that are not obvious.
If you want to make sure you get your news closest to the source, consider subscribing to The New York Times.
If this ceasefire essentially becomes permanent with no change, then the White House will have accomplished virtually none of its major goals.
The country is still run by a military and theocratic group of elites who have terrorized their own population.
They still have their nuclear material.
They still have missile supplies and drones.
And most importantly, I think, they still have a sense that they were able to stand up to the United States and Israel and resist against a much larger invading force.
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