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3 days ago
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The mechanisms of accountability have been dismantled: Baker on Trump's fringe appointees
President Trump continues to appoint controversial figures to federal office, now with a former podcast host with a history of inflammatory comments being tapped for a top ethics position. Chief White House Correspondent of the New York Times Peter Baker and NBC News White House Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard join The Weekend to discuss.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Politics
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Trump's Transactional Foreign Policy
Editor's Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. This week, Donald Trump returned from the first major foreign trip of his second term. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss what the president's visit to the Middle East reveals about America's place in the world. The time Trump spent abroad has reinforced an approach to foreign policy that is 'malleable' and 'not always predictable,' Peter Baker said last night. 'He went to the Middle East to re-alter the dynamics by recognizing Syria's new government, announcing that he's going to lift sanctions, and effectively moving closer towards a deal with Iran that sounds an awful lot like the deal he threw out in his first term.' This, Baker continued, 'is a different dynamic than we saw even just a week ago.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch; David Ignatius, a columnist at The Washington Post; Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington and foreign-affairs correspondent for NBC News. Watch the full episode here. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Atlantic
Trump's Transactional Foreign Policy
This week, Donald Trump returned from the first major foreign trip of his second term. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss what the president's visit to the Middle East reveals about America's place in the world. The time Trump spent abroad has reinforced an approach to foreign policy that is 'malleable' and 'not always predictable,' Peter Baker said last night. 'He went to the Middle East to re-alter the dynamics by recognizing Syria's new government, announcing that he's going to lift sanctions, and effectively moving closer towards a deal with Iran that sounds an awful lot like the deal he threw out in his first term.' This, Baker continued, 'is a different dynamic than we saw even just a week ago.' Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch; David Ignatius, a columnist at The Washington Post; Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington and foreign-affairs correspondent for NBC News. Watch the full episode here.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Politics
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'I don't hear it': WH not re-examining how it handled Abrego Garcia deportation, says reporter
President Donald Trump argued in an interview with NBC News' 'Meet the Press' that fulfilling his ambitious campaign promise to rapidly carry out mass deportations may take precedence over giving immigrants the right to due process under the Constitution, as required by courts. The New York Times' Peter Baker discusses.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Politics
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Trump doubting Putin is a ‘change of course': Journalist
MSNBC political analyst and chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, Peter Baker, shares his thoughts on President Trump's first meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since their heated exchange in the Oval Office last February. He also reacts to Trump doubting whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to end the war in Ukraine and Trump's criticism of Baker's articles in The New York Times.
