Mark Halperin

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23,809 appearances 90 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 3d ago

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Next Up with Mark Halperin · What Campaign Spending Reveals About the 2026 Midterms · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

and Saudi Arabia. voice-verified

The Saudis are clearly vulnerable to this, as you said, surprisingly, devastatingly vulnerable. voice-verified

And activating the Houthis presents a whole new level of complication. voice-verified

So why did they wait this long to play this card? voice-verified

Yeah, that's what I voice-verified

Why wouldn't they have done that the first voice-verified

defense capability. voice-verified

Yeah, and I want to move on to a different topic, but I'll just say to button that up, the fact that the president will not come bail out the Saudis at their request and, in fact, is having conversations with the Houthis is, I think, extraordinarily bracing. voice-verified

And maybe it pushes, as you suggested, maybe it pushes the Saudis and the Israelis together, but I would not have predicted this. voice-verified

I'm going to take it one step farther. voice-verified

I'll tell you voice-verified

on Washington the United States yeah it's an incredible change we'll see how it plays out I want to cover a couple more topics first of the U.S. voice-verified

policy now the U.S. voice-verified

strategy is is to put economic pressure on Iran voice-verified

Given Israeli intelligence and operational capabilities, what do we know, if anything, what are the Israelis doing to contribute to that? voice-verified

Are they doing anything to destroy infrastructure, to kill business leaders? voice-verified

What are the Israelis doing to further the mission of strangling Tehran through economic pressure? voice-verified

is- So you're confident they're involved, but I just think if they're not killing every Iranian business leader, they should be. voice-verified

Does that, you know, stabilizing. voice-verified

All right. voice-verified

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