Susan Glasser
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1,391 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Aug
Susan Glasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Qatar is not only a key country that is affected by Donald Trump's decision to undertake this conflict in the Middle East against Iran.
Qatar plays a key role as an intermediary and negotiator, both with Hamas.
where it has been the key broker of talks over the last few years, as well as with the Iranians intermittently.
And it's that welter of apparent conflicts of interest and the lack of transparency that was exactly what the entire framework of post-Watergate laws was designed to combat, right?
The idea that people had after Nixon's excesses, and there were terrible scandals
In that administration, though, the dollar figures were way modest compared with Donald Trump's, including Nixon's vice president, Spirit Agnew, literally taking payoffs while he was in high office.
As a result of that, which Americans across the political spectrum viewed as a national embarrassment, a humiliation, an entire framework of laws was passed in this country.
And it seems like Donald Trump's mission
is to undo the final remaining shreds of these post-Watergate laws.
And they were designed to have transparency and accountability that if people were contributing to our politicians, they should do so with strict limits.
They should do so with strict disclosure requirements.
That's basically all gone now.
It's basically all gone.
The world as we know it growing up, I started out as a young reporter in Washington.
It seems quaint.
We would write these stories about like, you know, Tim Miller, congressional candidate, receives like $1,000, you know, $5,000 PAC contribution, you know, from an industry in which, you know, his family has an interest.
Isn't this a scandal?
This is the world that we came up in, and it's a world that Donald Trump has sort of stood on its head.
Yeah, I was thinking about the timing of this.
It's sort of this painful juxtaposition between the soaring aspirations that were meant to be celebrating of the founders and the sort of gritty, cold, hard, grubby cash
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