Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 1/16/25
PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show
Washington Week
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe President Trump will order strikes against Iran, or maybe he won't. |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe he'll invoke the Insurrection Act against anti-ice protesters in Minnesota. |
| 0:10.0 | Or maybe he won't. |
| 0:11.0 | Maybe he'll try to buy or conquer Greenland, or not. |
| 0:15.0 | If you have the feeling that we're all just living in Trump's world, you're not alone. |
| 0:20.0 | No president in our |
| 0:21.5 | lifetimes has made himself the center of everything the way that Trump has. Next. |
| 0:29.9 | Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. It seemed inevitable earlier this week that |
| 0:35.1 | President Trump would be ordering military strikes on Iran, |
| 0:38.1 | but then he pulled back after getting pressure from Israel and America's Arab allies to hold off. |
| 0:43.4 | But that doesn't mean he won't attack Iran next week, or tomorrow, or right now, for that matter. |
| 0:48.9 | Very often unpredictability is a useful leadership tool, but we're in a whole other reality now. President |
| 0:55.2 | Trump doesn't recognize the guardrails that were visible to previous presidents, and self-restraint |
| 1:00.6 | isn't his specialty, which is why Denmark is preparing for the defense of Greenland. |
| 1:06.2 | Joining me tonight at the table to discuss all of this, Jonathan Carl, the Chief Washington correspondent for ABC News. |
| 1:13.4 | David Sanger, the White House and National Security correspondent at the New York Times. |
| 1:18.5 | Nancy Yusuf is a staff writer at The Atlantic. |
| 1:21.6 | And Nick Schifrin is the Foreign Affairs and Defense correspondent for PBS News Hour and the moderator of the new program Compass Points |
| 1:28.2 | that debuts this weekend on PBS. |
| 1:31.5 | Welcome all of you. |
| 1:33.6 | Thank you, Nick. |
| 1:34.7 | Big weekend. |
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