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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boy Tay. The White House busy these days. John Decker,
our White House correspondent joining us, John, welcome in, Thanks
for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, thanks a lot. Jat, good to be with you today.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
You know, I wanted to ask you. You've been around
the White House for quite some time. I think you
date back to Thomas Jefferson. No, not maybe not that far,
but uh huh, you've been there for a number of administrations.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, have you seen it any busier.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Than what we're seeing right now? Obviously George Bush with
nine to eleven some other incidents. You know, there's always
seems to be something that pops, but this one seems
to be busier than I remember.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, it is at the top of the list. As
you mentioned, you know, in the aftermath of nine to eleven,
that was certainly a busy time, but this is an
extended period of time. Also, during the impeachment of Bill Clinton,
the whole Monica Lewinsky situation, that too also was a
busy time. But then nothing compares to the first six
(00:54):
months of a presidency in which the president every day
is the top story in the newspapers, on television, on
cable news. That's been the case with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So with the negotiations and discussions happening now in Geneva,
Switzerland on the Israeli Iranian situation, the President's got on
his calendar other meetings. Next week he's headed to the
Big NATO's summit in the Netherlands.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Expectations there, well, this is a subject that was not
on the agenda two weeks ago, but now it is
on the agenda for all thirty two members of the
NATO Defense Alliance.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Other issues certainly will be on the agenda. The war
in Ukraine is certainly at the top of the list,
and also just the role of the NATO Defense Alliance
with the new US president. This is the first NATO
summit taking place with Donald Trump back in the White
House as the lead in terms of foreign policy for
(01:52):
the United States. So it's a different dynamic than that
existed during the past four years with Joe Biden as president.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, and the NATO partners are certainly kind of different
these days. As you mentioned the Ukraine War with Russia
and Ukraine still you know, wanting to be a part
of NATO and they keep saying no to them. Any
movement in that direction, do you think there'll be any
discussion with that or is that, you know, beating a
dead horse.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's on hold. You know it's on hold. And the
reason it's on hold is because you need unanimous consent
if you have a new member. You know how difficult
it was even for Sweden and Finland, the newest members
of NATO, to get unanimous consent, holdouts being Hungry and Turkey,
But finally they got on board. And you know, right
now the President is not in favor of Ukraine being
(02:43):
a part of the NATO defense A lines. I think,
you know, down the road, maybe ten years down the road,
I could see it, but certainly not in the near future.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Are you hearing anything around the White House? And I
know you're not in cabinet meetings, you know that deep
into knowing what the President's thinking and doing, but has said,
you know, I'm going to give this a couple of weeks.
There's you know, things move fast in war, and I'm
not going to make any decisions right now on our
involvement as a country to be a bigger part of
this conflict happening right now. But inside the belway there
(03:14):
at the White House, what seems to be the vibe
is there more to it. You do you sense something
with your experience around the White House over the years
that we will go more likely to go than not,
or you get any feel whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh, I think that when the President says, you know,
he's going to give diplomacy a chance, I take him
at his word when he says that, JT. And in
addition to that, it's interesting to me that the President's
timeline of two weeks actually measures up with the exact
timeline of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho. He says to
finish the goals of this mission in terms of attacks
(03:50):
on Iran's nuclear program. If Neting Yahoo in Israel can
get everything accomplished within that two week time frame, there's
no reason for the US to get involved militarily, right And.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So far Benjamin and Yahoo's been doing a pretty good
job on doing all of this himself. And always, as
we talked about earlier this hour, got to keep an
eye on our back here with Russia and China and
the potential involvement they've got with Iran. Is everybody else
seems to be on board with us in fighting Iran
and keeping that nuclear weapon out of their hands. You know,
(04:23):
Russia and China now come together as kind of allies
to them. So interesting, John, thank you so much. We'll
talk to you soon.
Boy Tay. The White House busy these days. John Decker,
our White House correspondent joining us, John, welcome in, Thanks
for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, thanks a lot. Jat, good to be with you today.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
You know, I wanted to ask you. You've been around
the White House for quite some time. I think you
date back to Thomas Jefferson. No, not maybe not that far,
but uh huh, you've been there for a number of administrations.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, have you seen it any busier.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Than what we're seeing right now? Obviously George Bush with
nine to eleven some other incidents. You know, there's always
seems to be something that pops, but this one seems
to be busier than I remember.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, it is at the top of the list. As
you mentioned, you know, in the aftermath of nine to eleven,
that was certainly a busy time, but this is an
extended period of time. Also, during the impeachment of Bill Clinton,
the whole Monica Lewinsky situation, that too also was a
busy time. But then nothing compares to the first six
(00:54):
months of a presidency in which the president every day
is the top story in the newspapers, on television, on
cable news. That's been the case with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So with the negotiations and discussions happening now in Geneva,
Switzerland on the Israeli Iranian situation, the President's got on
his calendar other meetings. Next week he's headed to the
Big NATO's summit in the Netherlands.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Expectations there, well, this is a subject that was not
on the agenda two weeks ago, but now it is
on the agenda for all thirty two members of the
NATO Defense Alliance.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Other issues certainly will be on the agenda. The war
in Ukraine is certainly at the top of the list,
and also just the role of the NATO Defense Alliance
with the new US president. This is the first NATO
summit taking place with Donald Trump back in the White
House as the lead in terms of foreign policy for
(01:52):
the United States. So it's a different dynamic than that
existed during the past four years with Joe Biden as president.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, and the NATO partners are certainly kind of different
these days. As you mentioned the Ukraine War with Russia
and Ukraine still you know, wanting to be a part
of NATO and they keep saying no to them. Any
movement in that direction, do you think there'll be any
discussion with that or is that, you know, beating a
dead horse.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's on hold. You know it's on hold. And the
reason it's on hold is because you need unanimous consent
if you have a new member. You know how difficult
it was even for Sweden and Finland, the newest members
of NATO, to get unanimous consent, holdouts being Hungry and Turkey,
But finally they got on board. And you know, right
now the President is not in favor of Ukraine being
(02:43):
a part of the NATO defense A lines. I think,
you know, down the road, maybe ten years down the road,
I could see it, but certainly not in the near future.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Are you hearing anything around the White House? And I
know you're not in cabinet meetings, you know that deep
into knowing what the President's thinking and doing, but has said,
you know, I'm going to give this a couple of weeks.
There's you know, things move fast in war, and I'm
not going to make any decisions right now on our
involvement as a country to be a bigger part of
this conflict happening right now. But inside the belway there
(03:14):
at the White House, what seems to be the vibe
is there more to it. You do you sense something
with your experience around the White House over the years
that we will go more likely to go than not,
or you get any feel whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh, I think that when the President says, you know,
he's going to give diplomacy a chance, I take him
at his word when he says that, JT. And in
addition to that, it's interesting to me that the President's
timeline of two weeks actually measures up with the exact
timeline of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho. He says to
finish the goals of this mission in terms of attacks
(03:50):
on Iran's nuclear program. If Neting Yahoo in Israel can
get everything accomplished within that two week time frame, there's
no reason for the US to get involved militarily, right And.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So far Benjamin and Yahoo's been doing a pretty good
job on doing all of this himself. And always, as
we talked about earlier this hour, got to keep an
eye on our back here with Russia and China and
the potential involvement they've got with Iran. Is everybody else
seems to be on board with us in fighting Iran
and keeping that nuclear weapon out of their hands. You know,
(04:23):
Russia and China now come together as kind of allies
to them. So interesting, John, thank you so much. We'll
talk to you soon.
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