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Benjamin J. Rhodes, deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, was the chief negotiator in the secret normalization talks with Cuba and has been a central player in the making of American foreign policy since 2009, both as a key advisor and as the president’s chief foreign policy speechwriter. Rhodes and Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, discuss Obama’s worldview, focusing on Cuba, the Iran talks, and the continuing crisis across the broader Middle East.
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