Franco Ordonez

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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.

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The NPR Politics Podcast · As casualties rise, do the politics of the Iran war change? · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I was looking at some of the dates. voice-verified

It was over four months ago where President Trump was first talking about Iran was desperate for a deal, that a deal would be reached very soon, that the military was being decimated. voice-verified

Yet, as we're seeing now, I mean, they're still striking dozens of targets every night. voice-verified

Their actions continue. voice-verified

There's still more strikes on U.S. voice-verified

allies, on U.S. voice-verified

troops. voice-verified

Now you have four casualties online. voice-verified

And yes, while that is a low number, you know, I was talking with actually a Republican strategist and Trump has pointed out that it's a low number. voice-verified

And this Republican strategist was just saying, you know, to him, at least, it kind of reminded him of the early days of COVID. voice-verified

where the president was kind of downplaying the impacts of deaths by COVID. voice-verified

And obviously that turned into a much larger thing. voice-verified

And I don't want to say that this is going to be turned into a much larger thing. voice-verified

And certainly we all hope it will not. voice-verified

But I do think there is risk because these threats that the president is making are very real. voice-verified

He has definitely people who are close to him that are pushing for even stronger action. voice-verified

And I think the American people are very concerned that this is not coming to an end like he said it would and that it is only escalating. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And Kennedy is a Republican, a general supporter of the Trump administration. voice-verified

So the fact that he's asking these hard questions and, you know, pushing back, I found that very illustrative of some of the frustration that that's across Washington and, frankly, across the country. voice-verified

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