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What happened at Lindsey Graham’s funeral and which world leaders attended?
Lindsey Graham's funeral draws world leaders to Washington for tributes and some diplomacy. Reuters breaks down President Trump's busy day. The Washington Post looks at how enthusiasm for the president might be waning among GOP voters and why America's biggest cities are losing their kids.
So the number of children living in big cities is declining pretty dramatically. The fertility rate or the birth rate is down actually more in cities than in other places.
It's Wednesday, July 29th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. D.C. 's most powerful were gathered together at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday for the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham. It was a day that was marked by tributes, but also plenty of high-level diplomacy. President Trump eulogized Graham, noting how close they eventually became.
He was a man who gave America the full measure of his good and mighty heart until that heart itself just gave out. But even though Lindsey's life was cut short while he was still so full of vim and vigor, there can be no doubt that he lived absolutely to the fullest. He died doing the work he was born to do. He was truly a great politician. serving the country he loved to serve so deeply.
The funeral brought global leaders to pay tribute, and that provided an unusual opening for talks on two ongoing conflicts in the Gulf and Ukraine. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Trump in a closed-door meeting before the service began, and at a time when it's not exactly clear how Netanyahu is influencing the Iran war.
They've had this love-hate relationship for a long time. I've had people close to Trump just say it's just a bizarre relationship, and it makes less and less sense the closer you are in some respects.
Graham Slattery is White House national security reporter for Reuters. He notes they began the war side by side, with Trump regarding Netanyahu as a close ally.
How did President Trump and Netanyahu interact during the closed-door meeting?
But he's also been very frustrated in recent times, for instance, by some of Israel's bombing campaigns in southern Lebanon. So that's the macro. And then specifically, he's complained a bit recently about Prime Minister Netanyahu publicly making the case for strikes on Pickaxe Mountain, which is this alleged Iranian nuclear facility. rather than to him privately, perhaps in an effort to box him in, in the court of public opinion.
Slattery says Netanyahu may be trying to keep the U.S. involved in the conflict, even if Israel's more ambitious goals, like regime change, have fallen away a little.
I think for more obtainable goals, a major strike of some kind, Big Axe Mountain, the place I keep bringing up, is something the Israelis would really like. This is a place that is a very, very deep cavern that is perhaps not penetrable by any conventional weapons. So destroying this facility would take just a lot of effort. It's not even clear that there's actually spinning centrifuges in there.
Netanyahu described the meeting as excellent. Trump's other meeting of the day was with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, another leader that he's had a complicated relationship with. They met privately on warmer terms than previous meetings and reportedly discussed support for Ukraine's air defenses and the possibility of reviving talks. It was perhaps no surprise that foreign policy would become an important part of the day. Graham was committed to the idea that the U.S. should shape world events and exert power abroad.
Senator Graham, he was really an old school hawk. Trump said something to the effect of, Lindsay, he never saw a war he didn't like. And so he was really, he was a pretty powerful advocate for just being more involved in, I mean, most conflicts, but particularly in Ukraine and Iran. So with his death, the hawk, so to speak, the old school neoconservatives really lost an important voice who had access to Trump and was actually one of relatively few people that could actually sway his decision making. If you're Ukraine, if you're the Iranian opposition, you're probably a bit concerned.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–0:06
2
What happened at Lindsey Graham’s funeral and which world leaders attended?
0:06–2:17
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How did President Trump and Netanyahu interact during the closed-door meeting?
2:17–10:37
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What issues did reporters raise about Trump and Netanyahu’s relationship?
10:37–13:17
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