Martin Fletcher: Trump is borrowing from Netanyahu's playbook on media attacks

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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Former NBC Tel Aviv Bureau Chief Martin Fletcher joins to discuss his new novel "Promised Land," which tells the story of two brothers and a refugee during Israel's first years after World War II.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the priest.
0:03.5	Meet the priest.
0:04.4	The priest.
0:05.4	Welcome to 1947.
0:11.1	The Meet the Press Podcast.
0:12.5	My guest today is an old colleague of mind Martin Fletcher, former Burechie for NBC
0:17.0	in Tel Aviv, and a long time foreign correspondent, Fletcher retired in 2010, and is committed
0:22.4	his time to writing books, and he's really good at it.
0:25.6	And his new book, A Promised Land, is just out.
0:28.1	The story is set at the end of World War II, and follows two brothers and a woman they
0:32.7	both love as they navigate their lives in a new Jewish state.
0:38.3	Mr. Fletcher, welcome to Meet the Press Podcast.
0:40.2	How are you, sir?
0:41.2	I'm good.
0:42.2	Thank you, Chuck.
0:43.2	So, look, I want to talk about the book a little bit.
0:46.2	I want to talk about Israel a little bit, but let me ask you, let's start with the perception
0:55.9	of the media in America and how that's playing in your neck of the woods in the Middle East.
1:03.0	Because I say this because outside of what we're experiencing lately, the most fact-free
1:09.1	zone in the world used to be the Middle East, in my opinion, and sometimes some people
1:13.8	still think it is.
1:16.1	But when you start to hear about, I'm just curious, like, would you have a president
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