Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Trump suggested the change was in retaliation for the refusal of South Korea's president Li Ji Myung to help the US in Iran, but as political scientist Norm Ornstein noted, the decision comes just as North Korea is sending fifty thousand troops to help Russian president Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine.
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The idea that Trump is a powerful dictator making a victorious alliance with North Korea and Russia presents a darkly threatening posture, but like the rest of Trump's social media dump, portrays a world different from reality.
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Today is the day that the memorandum of understanding with Iran that Trump signed on june seventeenth expires.
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Rather than ushering in a permanent agreement that opens the Strait of Hormuz and stops Iran's nuclear ambitions, today shows just how badly Trump is flailing.
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This morning he lashed out, telling Trey Yingst of the Fox News Channel that Iran should put up the white flag of surrender.
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I have no time schedule, Trump told Yingst.
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I'm not in a hurry.
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The midterms have nothing to do with my thinking.
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As for talks between Iran and Oman over control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump told Yingst If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the sh out of them.
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Oman is a key US ally in the region.
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For Iran's part, an Iranian leader told Reuters that if diplomacy fails, Tehran will shift from defense to offense.
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Benoit Asson and Summer Saeed of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Iranian hardliners have spent the past two months planning to widen the war and raise the cost for the US, inflicting enough pain that Iran can deter future attacks.
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Today, Reuters reported that Iran backed Houthis launched missiles at Saudi ships near the Bab El Mandeb Strait, another key international shipping route.
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Meanwhile, Trump is caught in a domestic scandal over the condition of the US military.
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In early August, news broke that the US was running low on precision missiles after using the expensive weapons to shoot down inexpensive Iranian drones.
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Then we heard about the appalling conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier kept overseas without adequate resupply and with maintenance issues, including overflowing toilets.
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Multiple outlets have reported that despondent service members months past the scheduled end of their deployment have attempted self harm.
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The US is moving the USS George Washington from the Western Pacific to replace the USS Lincoln, leaving the region near China without a US carrier.
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When a reporter began a question to Trump on Friday with family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on board the USS Lincoln.
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Trump interrupted to say, No, they're not.
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