Katty Kay

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12,917 appearances 58 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard yesterday

Katty Kay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics: US · 223. Trump’s Latest Vanity Project Is Proof He’s Losing · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

For Jared Kushner's relationship with MBS, is MBS now demanding his money back? voice-verified

Having paid two billion dollars into Jared Kushner's private equity fund, he now finds that actually it didn't buy him very much. voice-verified

On that point, Americans out of the Middle East, you've got General McCaffrey, who knows that region well, saying there are 15 bases that are not going to reopen. voice-verified

You've got the key base in Bahrain that is a shell of itself at the moment. voice-verified

The US personnel have basically gone, making any kind of supply chain effort in the Middle East much more complicated, much more expensive. voice-verified

So, in some ways, they have got the Americans out of the Middle East. voice-verified

Middle East. voice-verified

And in this kind of equation of security for energy, which America has bought into for decades, they've also now shown that they've got the Americans out of the Middle East, at least in the terms that the Middle East had understood it before. voice-verified

There is no longer an a large, broad security umbrella. voice-verified

There is a very narrow security umbrella, a voice-verified

Tiny teeny one for American assets. voice-verified

We will protect America's direct assets where they interest us, but we're not actually going to bomb the Houthis to protect the Saudi assets and to help the Saudis. voice-verified

So I think the relationship in the last six months since this war has started, this war fundamentally upended decades of American policy in the Middle East in where. voice-verified

Ways that we couldn't have foreseen at the time, but which we are starting now to understand. voice-verified

And the question, I suppose, Anthony, is does Trump have a plan? voice-verified

Is this the 9D chess that you were talking about? voice-verified

And actually, we want to, Barack Obama style, get out of the Middle East and do the pivot to Asia? voice-verified

Or, which is when I was in Hong Kong last week, this is the question people were asking me: is it a voice-verified

Chaotic as it looks. voice-verified

And is this because Trump has problems making decisions? voice-verified

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