Sources & Methods: Trump's UK Visit, Gaza/Ukraine Tension
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're sharing another episode from NPR's newest podcast, Sources & Methods. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly breaks down the week's biggest national security news with NPR's team of reporters covering the military, State Department, and spy agencies. NPR correspondents stationed around the world also join the conversation.
This episode, political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben and diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen talk about the foreign policy issues that loomed large as President Trump visited U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer: the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. NPR international correspondent Daniel Estrin joins from Tel Aviv to talk about how Israelis are reacting to their increasing isolation amid international pressure on Israel to stop its offensive.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Rachel Martin. I'm the host of Wildcard from NPR. |
| 0:03.5 | For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous. |
| 0:08.7 | That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic. |
| 0:13.5 | But these days, I love it. |
| 0:15.5 | Hmm. |
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| 0:27.6 | Hey there, it's Tamara Keith here with another Saturday episode of Sources and Methods, |
| 0:33.9 | NPR's new national security podcast, hosted by Mary Louise Kelly. |
| 0:38.0 | We've been sharing these episodes here for a few weeks, but today will be the last time we do that. |
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| 0:58.7 | They're treating the Brits like they are other European countries. It's all about deal-making |
| 1:03.2 | transactional diplomacy and not so much about these big picture issues of what the world looked |
| 1:09.8 | like after World War II and this special |
| 1:11.9 | alliance. After a royal charm offensive, how special is the so-called special relationship |
| 1:20.4 | feeling between the UK and the U.S.? We'll check the temperature and dig into one of the key |
| 1:26.2 | points of tension, the war in Gaza. |
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