Showing results by author "Peter Baker"

"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.

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 .

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.

"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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.”

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.

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.

President Donald Trump suggested again Thursday that Puerto Rico bore some of the blame for its current crisis following twin hurricanes, and that there were limits to how long he would keep troops and federal emergency workers on the island to help.

"Trump Warns Puerto Rico Weeks After Storms: Federal Help Cannot Stay ‘Forever’" is from the October 12, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and Eileen Sullivan and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"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.

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.

"Obama and Shimon Peres: Fast Friends Who Found Peace Out of Reach" is from the September 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Caroline Miller.

Lost in the showdown between President Donald Trump and James B. Comey that played out last week was a chilling threat to the United States. Comey, the former director of the FBI, testified that the Russians not only had intervened in last year’s election but would try to do it again.

"Overshadowed by Trump-Comey Standoff, a Warning About Russia" is from the June 11, 2017 Domestic section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Upset about the investigation into Russian interference in last year’s election, President Donald Trump sought relief from James Comey, then the FBI director. By Comey’s account, Trump asked him to help “lift the cloud.”

"A Looming ‘Cloud’ Over the President Just Grew Darker" is from the June 08, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

President Donald Trump plans to pardon I. Lewis Libby Jr., who as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted of perjury in connection with the leak of a CIA officer’s identity, a person familiar with the decision said Thursday.

"Plan to Pardon Aide Convicted in CIA Leak" is from the April 13, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

To construct an “America First” budget, the initial trade-off for President Donald Trump was fairly obvious: The military and veterans would get more of what they want or need, while diplomats and foreign countries would have to make do with less.

For the White House, President Donald Trump’s first nomination to the Supreme Court is partly about getting the chance to make a second.