Katty Kay
speaker
12,917 appearances
58 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3d ago
Katty Kay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They could bypass all those pesky, annoying institutions like the National Security Agency and the State Department and all of these institutions that were the bedrock of American diplomacy that did things by a certain book and took into account
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history and geopolitics and knock-on effects and actually the chessboard.
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And they thought, this is great.
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We just have Donald Trump's cell phone number like every journalist in Washington.
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I have it, you have it, has Donald Trump's cell phone number, and we can just call him directly and bypass the NSA.
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And the State Department, well, guess what?
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What happens when you do that?
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You end up with the situation that you're in now with the Arab countries confronting a war that they
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didn't want, they didn't start, Iranian attacks that don't seem to be stopping against them and continue to be a threat, Houthis that are emboldened, energy infrastructure is now vulnerable, and an uncertainty about whether America is going to come to their defense after decades of
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of assiduously courting those relationships that were not just built on oil transactions and arms transactions.
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That was an important part of it, but it wasn't just transactional.
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It was built on building confidence amongst those leaders and amongst whoever was in the White House, whatever party was in the White House.
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That's what's shot here.
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Those countries may have thought they were better off with Donald Trump because they could call him directly.
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Actually, I think what the lesson for them and other allies is, is that actually a system of institutions was better off than this slightly feudal system that we have at the moment.
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If you're America's ally in the Middle East right now, or you're in Seoul, or you're in Taipei, you are watching what happened this week with MBS calling the White House and getting a kind of
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Oh, sorry, no answer.
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Sorry, no answer from the White House.
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Call back again.
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All our lines are occupied right now.
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