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Wendy Sherman: The world can't believe Donald Trump

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan talks with Wendy Sherman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, about Donald Trump's potential impact on US foreign policy, the U.S. president's unrivaled ability to launch nuclear weapons and more.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone this is Jonathan Kapart. This week we talked to

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Ambassador Wendy Sherman she's the former undersecretary of State for political

0:11.2

affairs who also happened to have negotiated the Iran nuclear

0:14.0

deal and we get into U.S. foreign policy, the impact of Donald Trump on it, and the one question

0:19.8

she gets in her travels around the world.

0:22.4

What are you all thinking?

0:24.0

That and her reaction to being called

0:26.0

a Washington power broker in line with Lloyd Cutler,

0:28.0

Verna Jordan, Bob Barnett,

0:30.0

coming up right now. Hi, I'm Jonathan Kapart. Welcome to K-Up and this week we're going to talk to Ambassador Wendy Sherman,

0:44.4

former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and a senior counselor

0:48.8

at the Albright Stonebridge Group and I want to thank Madam Ambassador for being here.

0:53.2

Thanks for coming in.

0:54.2

Delighted to be with you, Jonathan.

0:55.6

I've got to start on Donald Trump and ISIS.

1:00.3

At a campaign rally, Donald Trump said that President Obama, quote, is the founder of ISIS

1:06.2

and that Hillary Clinton is the, quote, co-founder.

1:09.6

He then repeated that assertion both on NBC and the Hugh Hewitt radio show the next day.

1:14.7

Talk about the impact of that kind of talk has had on the perception of US

1:20.3

foreign policy abroad.

1:22.1

Well, actually Jonathan, it's almost as if Donald Trump is channeling Vladimir Putin.

1:29.4

Because Putin has held the conspiracy theory,

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