Ep. 1,665 - NY Times' Peter Baker on the Iran war
The Michael Medved Show
The Michael Medved Show
4.4 • 516 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:28.6 | And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth, a great day for President Trump, |
| 0:35.2 | concluding his three-day visit to China after a nearly three-hour |
| 0:41.1 | closing meeting with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Zhang Man Hai leadership compound. |
| 0:50.2 | The visit ended without formal deals with Beijing, but Trump told Fox that Xi had agreed to stop sending |
| 1:01.8 | military equipment to Iran, and the two leaders agreed very significantly that the |
| 1:09.3 | Strait of Hormuz needed to be reopened. |
| 1:13.7 | A White House official told Politico on Thursday that Xi agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. |
| 1:23.9 | Now, this is the White House talking. |
| 1:26.2 | I hope that they're telling the truth because that again |
| 1:29.9 | would be a very positive development. But there's all kinds of dispute today about things that the |
| 1:38.2 | White House has said before, about the level of damage to the war capabilities in Iran, where apparently the damage to |
| 1:49.3 | Iranian military resources has not been nearly as devastating, nearly as destructive, |
| 1:58.0 | nearly as effective from an American point of view as the way it has been portrayed. |
| 2:04.6 | We will get to that, and it becomes a question of what source do you trust? |
| 2:10.9 | And do you trust Pete Hageceth and the Pentagon, or do you trust some international sources of news? And I know for a lot of people is an |
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