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As Trump’s Untested Emissary to Putin, Witkoff’s Role May Bring Risk

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    • 88:88
      Thomas Graham (chemist)
      The concern is, does Witkoff understand exactly what Putin is telling him and convey that properly?”
      The New York Times
      said Mr. Graham, who recently visited Moscow
    • 88:88
      Richard N. Haass
      It’s not as though the United States has done great over the years with experienced diplomats when it comes to Putin,
      The New York Times
      said Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, who said Mr. Witkoff should be given a chance to prove himself
    • 88:88
      Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)
      Witkoff doesn’t have the experience, obviously, that someone like Burns did,
      The New York Times
      Ms. Hill said
    • 88:88
      You come from a background of negotiations and transactions and deals, which is much different than diplomacy,
      The New York Times
      Mr. Kushner said
    • 88:88
      Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)
      You need to be super well prepared” to deal with Mr. Putin
      The New York Times
      said Fiona Hill, a Putin biographer who served as Mr. Trump’s senior National Security Council director for Russia
    • 88:88
      I never understood the Russian sanctions, candidly, because all it did was stop Russian investment into this country,
      The New York Times
      he said in a podcast interview
    • 88:88
      Knowing — to get on a plane, to go to Russia — who to trust, who not to trust, how do you feel like you’re able to navigate that?”
      The New York Times
      he asked
    • 88:88
      I can tell you that the Kremlin likes Witkoff because they believe that he does provide a direct channel to Trump,
      The New York Times
      he added
    • 88:88
      Mark Rutte
      Hopefully they’ll do the right thing,
      Reuters
      Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte
    • 88:88
      It's not going to happen. We'll make sure it doesn't happen,
      Reuters
      he said
    • 88:88
      Yuri Ushakov
      The meeting between Witkoff and President Vladimir Putin will take place in a closed format this evening,
      Politico Europe
      Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in response to a question from Russian state-owned news outlet Izvestia
    • 88:88
      He was a cheerleader for this rapprochement where the two leaders would come together, and that’s what happened, so thank God,
      The Independent
      Witkoff said
    • 88:88
      I am a member of that club that's buried a child,
      The Independent
      Witkoff said
    • 88:88
      Thomas Graham (chemist)
      That stunned me because I didn't know he was that interested in the Middle East,
      Sky News
      Senator Graham told NBC back in January, while discussing Mr Witkoff's appointment
    • 88:88
      Vladimir Putin
      I spent a lot of time with Putin. Talking and developing a friendship and relationship with him…"
      Sky News
      Speaking about his relationship with Mr Putin, he said