Gaza ‘take over,’ tariffs and Trump’s free reign
Post Reports
The Washington Post
4.4 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Senior political reporter Aaron Blake talks with senior national political correspondent Naftali Bendavid and national politics reporter Hannah Knowles about President Donald Trump's proposal to “take over” Gaza, displace Palestinians and remake it as the “riviera” of the Middle East. They also dig into Trump's use of tariffs as bargaining chips and the lack of resistance to Trump policies from both parties.
Today’s show was produced by Peter Bresnan. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Rachel Van Dongen and mixed by Sam Bair.
Subscribe to The Washington Post here.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Are you guys watching the game this weekend, the Super Bowl? |
| 0:05.8 | I forgot it was happening until. |
| 0:08.2 | I asked someone to hang out on Sunday evening, and then I was like, wait, there's the Super Bowl. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.8 | What about you, Nftali? |
| 0:15.1 | Yeah, I'll watch it. |
| 0:16.2 | I'll watch it. |
| 0:16.7 | I mean... |
| 0:17.6 | It's the most begrudging... |
| 0:19.0 | Well, it feels like an ordeal. |
| 0:23.6 | I mean, it's entertaining, but also an ordeal in a certain way. Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | I was looking at a poll recently. |
| 0:25.6 | It was from UGov this week, and it asked people what they were most looking forward to from the Super Bowl. |
| 0:31.6 | And it was only like 30% of people who said the actual game itself. Everybody else was like, I just want to hang out |
| 0:38.4 | with people and I want to see the commercials, which I don't have any patience for the commercials |
| 0:44.5 | first people. |
| 0:50.5 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm Aaron Blake's senior politics reporter and host of the Post Report's Weekly Politics Roundtable. |
| 1:00.1 | It's Thursday, February 6th. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm joined today by Neftali Ben David, who's a senior national political correspondent. |
| 1:07.5 | Hey, Neftali. |
| 1:08.4 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -54 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Washington Post, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Washington Post and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.