Mark Filippino
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1,851 appearances
41 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Mark Filippino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now there are just weeks left before the remainder of those supplies to the market is gone.
The Strait of Hormuz carried about one-fifth of the world's oil supplies before the conflict started.
At the time of this recording, the price of Brent crude was sitting at nearly $86 a barrel.
When the U.S.
and Iran signed the now-defunct Memorandum of Understanding last month, American diplomats were not the ones to negotiate it.
Instead, President Trump relied on his personal confidants, like his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
And that's no coincidence.
The president has repeatedly criticized the Department of State as part of the so-called Deep State.
That's President Trump speaking on the campaign trail back in 2023.
Since then, the agency responsible for America's foreign policy has been struggling to keep both its workforce and its legitimacy.
Abigail Hauslohner is the FT's U.S.
Foreign Affairs correspondent.
She joins me now.
Hi, Abby.
Hey, Mark.
So, Abby, set the scene for us.
Can you just tell us how things typically work at the State Department?
And how has that changed under Trump in his second term?
Yeah, and on top of that, the president has allowed half of all U.S.
ambassador posts to just stay vacant.
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