Helena Humphrey
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262 appearances
12 recordings
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 26 Aug
Helena Humphrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's been calling on the military to lay down their weapons.
Essentially, he's saying, do it yourselves, no boots on the ground from the US side.
But certainly we know that that will be extremely challenging.
You've got elements of the regime which are still there.
And I think in the meantime, there's the question, will the US end up embroiled in something which is far messier in the wider Middle East?
Not to mention the risks that we know that can come with a power vacuum.
You know, when you think
Iraq, as you say, Libya, Syria.
So if past is prologue here, certainly this is a gamble from the US president.
Let me just run you through what some of the lawmakers have had to say, starting off with Lindsey Graham.
He is a Republican senator.
He is an ally of Donald Trump.
And essentially his message, which he's posted on X, is that he believes that this is an opportunity to reshape the Middle East.
He says that he expects this campaign to be a violent one, but ultimately he expects it to be
You can compare and contrast that with what we've heard from another Republican, a congressman, Thomas Massey, who is a critic of Donald Trump.
And he has called this an act of war unauthorized by Congress.
Certainly there had not been a congressional vote on any of these strikes.
Just some other reaction to bring you now.
Ro Khanna, he is a Democratic lawmaker and he has called for a vote on Monday.
He said that lawmakers...
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