Jonathan Swan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Fresh Air · Gold, secrets, never-ending meetings: Inside the Trump White House · 15 Jul 2026
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So extraordinary moment, you know, when the history of this whole war is written.
I think this is one of the seminal moments.
It was February 11 this year.
the Prime Minister of Israel comes down to the White House Situation Room.
You said rare.
I'm not sure a presentation like this has ever happened.
It's possible it has.
We couldn't find...
a parallel for it with a foreign leader being in that room being in that room and pitching the united states president on a war which is essentially what was not essentially that is what happened he came down to the situation room trump leaves his usual place at the head of the table and sits in the middle of the table opposite netanyahu and netanyahu gives this presentation he's got you know you've got the screen on the wall um behind him and he has the head of massad
and Israeli generals on the screen.
And Netanyahu played a video for the president of regime change scenarios and essentially a montage.
of potential replacements for the Ayatollah.
So the presentation ends, and Trump was quite impressed by it.
And he said something to the effect of, sounds good.
His team was much more skeptical.
So overnight, the CIA analyzes Netanyahu's presentation to figure out how plausible were these scenarios that he was laying out.
So the next day, there's a meeting in the White House Situation Room, and two agency officials brief Trump's senior team.
Trump's not in the room yet.
And they lay out the findings.
The bottom line is they say that these regime change scenarios were divorced from reality.
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