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Speaker 2: A single best Idea and an extraordinary Tuesday. When Paul
Speaker 2: and I started the show this morning, we have no
Speaker 2: idea where we're going. Ten minutes before we started, literally
Speaker 2: we were on here with Nathan Hager. Demarca jumped this
Speaker 2: off missile attacks at carg which became military sites according
Speaker 2: to the Wall Street Journal. As you listen to single
Speaker 2: Best Idea, I have no idea where this story will unfold.
Speaker 2: What we're committed to is talking to people who are
Speaker 2: legitimate experts who have really thought about this long before
Speaker 2: any moment of punditry. Rebecca Listener is with the Console
Speaker 2: on Foreign Relations, a wonderful essay recently on realism in
Speaker 2: foreign diplomacy. Here is Rebecca Listener on the moment at hand.
Speaker 1: President Trump has said if Iron doesn't come to the
Speaker 1: table for negotiations, doesn't reopen the straight of hor Moods
Speaker 1: by eight pm Eastern tonight, he's going to bomb them
Speaker 1: back into the Stone Ages. He's threatened a new Infrastructure
Speaker 1: Day that takes on power plants and bridges. Some would
Speaker 1: say that these could constitute war crimes, but he's looking
Speaker 1: for a way to de escalate this conflict because he
Speaker 1: entered into it with no plan and no strategy and
Speaker 1: now is having trouble finding a way out. So my
Speaker 1: expectation is he's hoping to bridge the gap between what
Speaker 1: are two very maximalist set of demands that both sides
Speaker 1: have put on the table and negotiations and try to
Speaker 1: really open a diplomatic path that helps at least get
Speaker 1: to a ceasefire that puts a pause on this conflict
Speaker 1: and takes some pressure off the markets.
Speaker 2: Rebecca Listener to the Council on Foreign Relations along that
Speaker 2: idea of diplomacy, A piercing conversation, maybe the most acute
Speaker 2: ever with ellen Wald. She's with the Atlantic Council, but
Speaker 2: far more ellen Wald were There're one volume Saudi inc
Speaker 2: of years ago. Ellen Wald on the allies in the
Speaker 2: Persian Gulf.
Speaker 3: I do think that the US is in constant contact
Speaker 3: with Saudi Arabia, with the Saudi government along with other
Speaker 3: you know, GCC governments. This is a huge issue for them,
Speaker 3: and the potential for the war to grow even wider
Speaker 3: is growing at this point because with Iran essentially acting
Speaker 3: as this kind of toll master of the straight of horror, moves.
Speaker 3: This is not something that Saudi Arabia, or the UE
Speaker 3: or any of the other countries that rely on this
Speaker 3: waterway can stand for.
Speaker 2: Ellen Wald, her book is Saudi. Can't say enough about
Speaker 2: the coverage. A major, major shout out to our Tea
Speaker 2: Live team covering the Iran War. It stretches from Washington
Speaker 2: to Westminster today with Kiers Starmer's people weighing in, to
Speaker 2: our Queen Victoria Street headquarters in Dublin and on over
Speaker 2: to Dubai an Istabule. Major shout out to Patrick Sykes
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