Victoria Coates
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
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And we need to focus on that to see this end, not on attacking each other, you know?
Morning Wire · USAID Programs Slashed & Anti-Israel Activist Detained | 3.11.25 · 11 Mar 2025
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In this case, we have a non-US citizen who is saying things that are incredibly disruptive, that are attempting to incite violence, and who is here on a visa under very different circumstances than an American citizen. So he is now being held responsible for his actions, for his speech over the course of the last now more than a year plus.
And he has valued much more highly his dedication to the Palestinian cause than he has his legal presence in the United States. And so I think the State Department is entirely justified in taking this action.
No, I don't think so, Steve. I think what President Trump is doing is acknowledging that 80 years on, the reason that some of the structures were put in place after World War II, which was actually largely to prevent another inter-Europe war, that those circumstances are no longer in place. You know, a war between Germany and France is not our number one national security problem.
There's been no diplomacy to proceed to a conclusion of the war. We've had a lot of maximalist rhetoric. We've had a lot of displays of support for Ukraine and and declarations that Ukraine is a democracy and this is an existential threat to the West. But we've also had hundreds of thousands dead and a lot of destructions. And as I said, no progress.
So I think he is trying to change that paradigm.
So that hardly looks to me like, you know, a Washington that is rejecting Europe.
Morning Wire · Confirmation Hearings Continue & Israel-Hamas Deal Reached | 1.16.25 · 16 Jan 2025
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Well, we know so far that this is going to be a phased arrangement that Hamas finally supplied a list of, we hear, 98 hostages, both dead and alive, that are still in Gaza under their control. So we'll set aside the possibility that there are additional people that Hamas no longer has control over.
So this is what they have, that there will be some number of them, close to 35, who will be released in coming days. And a ceasefire will go into effect shortly. for about six weeks, if that does indeed happen. And during which time Israel reserves the right to go back into Gaza and resume fighting if there are any infractions on the ceasefire.
And I think that's very important that the only thing we really know right now is that we're likely to see about 35 hostages come out on Sunday, the day before the inauguration. And at that point, burden is on Hamas to see if we go any further with this deal.
I think it's more of a drawdown in these early phases and also important that Israel is being asked to release some number of Palestinian prisoners. This is standard. It happened in the last deal for hostages, which was in November of 2023. So that is going to happen as well. But it's important that Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that they are not going to relinquish control of
of the periphery of the Gaza Strip. They are going to retain the right to go back in if Hamas violates this. And so it's a very big if that Hamas is actually going to behave itself and not do something that would bring the Israelis back in.
I just think it's fair. I mean, they're obviously not identical by any stretch of the imagination. But in this case, what you've had is, as I said, since November of 2023, no movement on the hostages whatsoever. And a number of hostages killed in that intervening 14 months.
And what has changed is in early December of last year, you know, six weeks ago, you had President Trump make a very strong statement that the hostages needed to be let go now or there would be hell to pay. And he has repeated that strong statement. He has empowered his good friend Steve Witkoff to be Middle East envoy to carry out these negotiations.
Somebody that, you know, our interlocutors in the Middle East knows speaks for the president-elect. And that has created motion. So I think you're going to see the Biden administration try to take all sorts of credit for this. But the fact of the matter is it was the change in tone out of President Trump that brought this into being. And the other kind of cruel reality here is
is that the window to get the hostages out has been closing. We know that more and more of them are dying. The conditions they're under are dire. So if not now, if it was becoming a real possibility, it would be never. So I think that's why President Trump took the actions he did.
We think there are four alive. And so the question is whether they would be part of this original Trosh. We don't have those names yet or whether they would come out in phases as well.
Morning Wire · Will Trudeau Resign? Canada’s Leadership in Jeopardy | 12.22.24 · 22 Dec 2024
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It's a really chaotic situation, and your listeners will be forgiven. There are so many. We have South Korea, we have Japan, we have Germany, we have France. All of these governments are sort of falling into chaos, largely because their populations feel that the governments are not responding to the issues that are important to them, and particularly in Canada.
You know, Prime Minister Trudeau, who has been the card-carrying poster child for a woke liberal agenda, very extreme policies on immigration, on gender issues, all of these things has become deeply unpopular to the point of 23% popularity, which is pretty bad.
And as you said, Krista Freeland, their finance minister and deputy prime minister, has resigned essentially based on the catastrophic economic situation. And I think you're seeing the Liberal Party really fall apart What is the catastrophic financial situation in Canada?
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