Senator Chris Murphy
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581 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Mar
Senator Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then to make matters worse, right after the election, the Trump Organization said that in this term, the President-elect's second term, it would drop its previous prohibition on doing new deals in the Middle East with private foreign companies aligned with foreign governments.
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So the Trump Organization is going to be signing
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new business deals in the Middle East with private companies that have connections to foreign governments at the very moment that you are going to be conducting sensitive diplomacy in these countries.
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That's just extraordinary.
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Never before in the history of this country has a president been, I mean, literally receiving cash
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from foreign governments and from foreign companies that are backed by foreign governments in the middle of their term.
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If you or I had done this as senators, we would be in violent violation of Senate ethics rule rules that's not permitted on the Foreign Relations Committee.
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And so I guess my question to you is is a pretty simple one.
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Do you see how this
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fundamentally compromises your diplomatic efforts?
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Do you have an issue or will you raise an issue with the president about his growing financial connection with the governments that you're going to be negotiating with?
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Hi, Don, you're back on the stream.
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Well, let me then simply ask you this question.
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Do you believe that the President should refrain from doing new business deals with Middle East governments during his term in office?
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You are correct.
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That is the fundamental question, whether or not a policy is being pursued in U.S.
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national security interests or do
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to the president's personal financial interest.
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That is the reason why, as United States senators, we are not allowed to have complicated existing financial arrangements with foreign governments, because you do not want to create the impression that there is a conflict of motivation.
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And I just wished that this president applied to this incoming administration the same rules that we hold ourselves to as United States senators.
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