Fmr Ambassador to UAE on State of US Diplomacy, Policy Toward Middle East

Intelligence Matters

CBS News

Politics, News, Government

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Barbara Leaf speaks with host Michael Morell about the importance of diplomacy, the state of governance in the Middle East, and the path forward for Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestine. Leaf, who spent over three decades at the Department of State overseeing some of the most challenging diplomatic missions in the Middle East, explains why the United States has a "binding interest" in the region and why successful partnerships are critical to national security. She also tells Morell why she believes former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's tenure marked a period of "extraordinary destructiveness" at the State Department, and what she hopes his successor, Mike Pompeo, will do to help it recover.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:05.6	Download the app today.
0:07.5	I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute
0:12.8	rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-blooded killers you
0:18.1	read about in the news.
0:19.8	Listen to the Amazon Music Exclusive Podcast Killer Psychie Daily in the Amazon Music
0:25.5	app.
0:26.5	Download the app today.
0:29.0	This is the Intelligence Matters podcast with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:33.8	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:38.3	There was a forced exodus of a lot of very fine public servants.
0:42.6	You know, what's done is done.
0:43.9	I do have great expectations of Mike Pompeo.
0:46.7	Yeah, how do you think he's doing?
0:48.2	I think he's setting a tone.
0:50.2	He's setting a tone and a set of priorities that I think are very sound.
0:55.6	I would assume there is in your view no walking away from the Middle East by the United
1:00.2	States.
1:01.2	We have a biting interest there.
1:02.6	We have a biting partnerships that are critical to our national security.
1:07.1	I think you've got some organic issues that are unresolved in the region to which Iran
1:12.9	provides an accelerant.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CBS News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.