Dexter Filkins
speaker
521 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5d ago
Dexter Filkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wouldn't be here if you guys had succeeded.
So the fact that I'm doing things a little bit differently, do you want me to just do the same thing and keep failing?
So that's his argument.
That's his argument.
It's like, that's why I'm here.
I'm here to do things differently.
is a very interesting story.
This is back in 2017.
So it's a long time ago.
But President Trump came in and he kind of looked at the map of the Middle East and said, you know, Iran is doing whatever the heck they want.
We need another ally out there.
Who is it?
It's going to be Saudi Arabia.
And so what President Trump said was we're going to empower Saudi Arabia as a kind of as a counterweight to Iran.
And Jared, you're going to you're going to take the file here.
It's all yours.
And there was a crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef.
He was very, very close to the American national security establishment and the intelligence agencies because he was very, very cooperative, particularly on terrorism.
And so the buzz in the Middle East at the time was, yeah, but the really dynamic guy was
is not Mohammed bin Nayef.
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