Mark Mazzetti
speaker
345 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Mark Mazzetti’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So Netanyahu has framed these attacks as defensive, right?
We are responding to Hezbollah's attacks on Israel, and we have a right to defend ourselves, so we're going to hit into Beirut.
That is also a card that Netanyahu will continue to play to see how far he can push Trump and test Trump's patience, right?
Knowing, as we said earlier, Netanyahu has this sort of political situation where he has to deal with the security of northern Israel for his own political future.
But also, he can't entirely blow up his relationship with President Trump.
So he's going to see how far he can push it.
Well, so publicly, he is flexing.
He's basically pointing out how much he kind of controls Netanyahu.
He said, in fact, a direct quote, that Netanyahu will do whatever I want him to do.
OK, I think he's also willing to give Netanyahu some space to a point where
But anything that is going to blow up this deal that Trump desperately wants, that's the breaking point.
I think President Trump has shown that, in his view, alliances are dispensable if they get in the way of something he wants.
In this case, what he really wants is an end to this war and a deal and moving on before the November elections.
He's thinking about his own political future.
Well, I think it's still unlikely that President Trump would take that drastic step to make aid absolutely conditional.
And of course, he's not the only player here, right?
Congress has a role.
But that was certainly the threat that J.D.
Vance was raising when he told Israel, you know, back off.
We're your only friends and we're the only one keeping you all safe.
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