David Sanger
speaker
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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But the president cast himself as the one who had Israel's long-term interests in mind more than Netanyahu did.
He said to me, to be honest with you, he should be very thankful for us for doing this because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn't be around for two hours.
He didn't.
And the Israelis have made it pretty clear that they're not going to be bound to an agreement to which they weren't a party.
They weren't involved in negotiations.
And yet the Iranians are making the case that this agreement applies not only to the United States,
but to all of its allies.
But at the end of the day, Israel's ultimate guarantor of security is the United States, and its ultimate supplier of arms is the United States.
And while the president has never threatened either one of those, you can imagine that amidst what we are told are cursing matches between these two pretty strong-willed leaders,
is the underlying threat that if Israel doesn't go along, the United States' commitment may in some ways weaken.
And we know that the president in recent weeks has basically made the case to Netanyahu that he's lost a generation of Americans whose views of Israel are nowhere near what they were in President Trump's generation.
You know, I think this is as durable as each side ultimately decides to make it.
The fact of the matter is that a memorandum of understanding doesn't have any particular enforceable capability.
This isn't a peace deal, as you said.
It's not a nuclear deal.
It's more like a table of contents, as one of the president's aides put it to me, for what needs to be negotiated next.
Now, it does have a couple of more specific limitations.
For example, it says in the Memorandum of Understanding that
that Iran is going to have to rid itself of its nuclear stockpile and begin to blend that down to a form that can't be used in nuclear weapons.
But it's a long way from that general statement to saying who's going to dig this out from under the rubble in Iran, who's going to go melt it down, and who's going to have possession of the nuclear material later on.
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