Franco Ordonez

speaker

380 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Aug

Franco Ordonez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The NPR Politics Podcast · How Trump's focus on his legacy drives his decisions · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

I'm Frank Ordonez. voice-verified

I cover the White House. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I mean, it's such a moment of flux where things are just kind of up in the air. voice-verified

I mean, the Strait of Hormuz really has become or gotten to be the center of this conflict. voice-verified

Iran continues to make more demands about controlling the Strait. voice-verified

The White House has basically made a red line that it cannot control a Strait, that it needs to continue to be voice-verified

An international waterway open to all cargo traffic. voice-verified

But that's been kind of the crux of this challenge right now. voice-verified

That's what blew up the MOU that was signed in June to kind of have a ceasefire. voice-verified

Iran wanted control of the strait and the U.S. voice-verified

said no. voice-verified

Remember that Trump was saying all week that we're going to have a agreement to clear the Strait of Hormuz very soon. voice-verified

He said it multiple times at the beginning of last week. voice-verified

That obviously has fallen apart. voice-verified

And now he's talking about some kind of low keying of discussions. voice-verified

He talked to Axios on Sunday, gave a brief interview where he said they're looking at the economy. voice-verified

And waiting for Iran to kind of back down, saying that they're having so much inflation that he thinks basically economic efforts are going to do what the military has not so far. voice-verified

Oh, absolutely. voice-verified

I mean, I've been talking with Republican strategists and Iranian experts who are very concerned that essentially the U.S. voice-verified

Showing 1–20 of 380 · page 1 of 19