Showing results by author "Peter Baker"

MOSCOW — Russia sought to move beyond last week’s diplomatic confrontation with the West on Monday by pressing President Donald Trump for a White House meeting with President Vladimir Putin that would undercut the perception that the angry reaction to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain has left it isolated from the international community.

"Russia Presses Trump for White House Meeting With Putin" is from the April 02, 2018 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Andrew Higgins and Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before.

Thick with tension, the conversation this week between Stephen K. Bannon, the chief White House strategist, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had deteriorated to the point of breakdown.

One has an office down the hall from the president in the White House; the other just moved into an office a floor up. One recently visited war-torn Iraq as the president’s emissary; the other will soon head to Berlin at the invitation of Germany’s chancellor.

"Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Pillars of Family-Driven West Wing" is from the April 15, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman and narrated by .

In the first book to consider these three presidents alone (Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton), and the one thing they have in common, Jeffrey Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker explain that the basis and process of impeachment is more political than it is a legal verdict. The Constitution states that the president, "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," leaving room for historical precedent and the temperament of the time to weigh heavily on each case.

Amid all the turmoil and uncertainty, with his White House seemingly fraying, his legislative agenda stalled and his electoral base in danger, President Donald Trump these days finds one area of comfort: talking about his tax cuts. He finds it so reassuring, in fact, that he is increasingly talking about doing it all over again.

"Flush Over Tax Cuts, Trump Says ‘Phase 2’ Is Coming" is from the March 14, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker, Jim Tankersley and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court on Monday culminates a three-decade project unparalleled in American history to install a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest tribunal, one that could shape the direction of the law for years to come.

"A 3-Decade Dream for Conservatives Is Within Reach" is from the July 10, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Rise of Trump Tracks Growing Debate over Global Fascism" is from the May 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Awaiting next U.S. President: A Splintered Middle East in 'Free Fall'" is from the October 24, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Facebook Struggles to Put Out Online Fires in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" is from the December 07, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Israeli Debate Returns Again to Palestinians" is from the December 24, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"World Crises Push Israeli-Palestinian Conflict off U.N. Center Stage" is from the September 22, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

As various officials have described it, the United States will intervene only when chemical weapons are used — or any time innocents are killed. It will push for the ouster of President Bashar Assad of Syria — or pursue that only after defeating the Islamic State. America’s national interest in Syria is to fight terrorism. Or to ease the humanitarian crisis there. Or to restore stability.

"A Call to Prayer, or Noise Pollution? Israel Targets Mosque Loudspeakers" is from the November 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

President Donald Trump and his advisers, venturing for the first time into the fraught world of Middle East peacemaking, are developing a strategy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would enlist Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to break years of deadlock.

Flynn’s rise and fall followed familiar patterns in Washington, where ambitious figures secure positions of great authority only to lose them in a blizzard of contradictions, recriminations and scandal. But rarely has an official at such a high level risen and fallen in such a dizzyingly short time — in this case just 24 days after Flynn arrived in the West Wing to take his corner office.

Trump’s advisers have likened him to Jackson, the first populist to win the White House. The president has hung Old Hickory’s portrait in the Oval Office and called him “an amazing figure in American history.”

President Donald Trump, who has made support for Israel a cornerstone of his foreign policy, shifted gears on Thursday and for the first time warned the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off new settlement construction.

"Trump Tells Israel to Hold Off on Building New Settlements" is from the February 02, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Kristi Burns.

President Donald Trump wrote off more than $100 million in business losses to reduce his federal taxes in 2005, according to forms made public Tuesday night: a rare glimpse at documents that he had refused to disclose since becoming a candidate for the nation’s highest office.

"Soviet Document Suggests Abbas Was a KGB Spy in the 1980s" is from the September 7, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.