America’s Challenges In The Middle East

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, President Trump embarked on his first major trip abroad of his second term. The President traveled to the Middle East to improve diplomatic relations in the region and make economic deals for the United States. The trip aims to strengthen relationships with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, though the President is not scheduled to travel to Israel. Former senior policy advisor for the Secretary of State and former special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, explains the importance of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia working together for prosperity in the region. He also describes the diplomatic opening that President Trump has offered Iran and why they should agree to this opportunity with U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Untold Story podcast. I'm Martha McCallum. It's great to have you with us today. We're watching so many developments in the Trump presidency over the course of this week. But right now,
0:23.1	we've been watching the president in Saudi Arabia and he will be in the UAE and also in Qatar over
0:27.9	the course of this week. Massive, massive, massive developments and realignments are underway
0:34.1	in the Middle East under the President's second term.
0:37.9	So I'm very delighted to have with me today, Brian Hook, who is former Secretary of State Pompeo's
0:45.5	senior policy advisor and former special representative for Iran joining me today.
0:51.1	Brian, welcome.
0:52.0	Great to have you here.
0:53.1	Thanks, Martha.
0:53.8	Good to be with you again.
0:55.0	You know, I always like to start these Untold Story podcasts with a little bit of background on my
1:01.0	guest. So can you just give us some insight into yourself and where you grew up and how you
1:06.7	got so interested in foreign policy that you made it your life's work? Well, I grew up on the
1:12.3	banks of Mississippi River in Bentendorf, Iowa. And at a very young age, I remember going to see
1:19.6	President Reagan, who used to live in Davenport, Iowa, the town next door, and he was a broadcaster.
1:26.8	And I remember he came to my hometown
1:29.6	when I was a kid, and I was just captivated by the whole thing. And so as I remember at that very
1:36.2	young age, thinking at some point it would really be great to serve the United States and to
1:41.9	work in the White House someday. I admired President Reagan very much.
1:46.7	And so I worked for first President Bush,
1:50.1	second President Bush, and for President Trump.
1:53.1	And I got my start in foreign policy some years ago,
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