Dexter Filkins
speaker
521 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Dexter Filkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going to be president.
effectively a secretary of state running around the globe, trying to put out wars.
And in the very same countries, I'm going to be like doing financial deals.
So he's like flying in and out of Israel.
And he's got investments in Israel, like the private equity fund has, you know, bought big stakes in Israeli companies.
And so it's a tangle.
It's like, as somebody put it to me, Jared Kushner has a responsibility to advance the interests of his investors.
What happens when those interests conflict with American foreign policy?
Yeah.
Well, that's the question.
Well, if you can cast your minds back to February, so the United States and Iran are not
You know, they're not in a shooting war.
They hate each other, but they're not in a shooting war.
And Kushner and Wyckoff, Steve Wyckoff, are dispatched to Geneva to talk to the Iranians about what's left of their nuclear program.
And Trump was very, very clear about this.
Give us what we want or we're going to attack.
And they made that very, very clear.
But the negotiation basically falls apart.
The Iranians kind of hold firm and say, no, we're not going to give you everything.
And essentially what happens, as far as I can, as best as I can tell, is the Iranians start putting stuff on the table.
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