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Transcript: Trump Failures Pile Up, and Aides Leak: He’s “Frustrated”

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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Donald Trump is confronting the limits on his power in fresh ways, and it’s rattling him badly. His inner circle is leaking word that he’s frustrated at his inability to force Iran’s hand, and he’s seeing some of his most corrupt designs crash and burn on many fronts at once. Yet there’s something sobering about it all. Placing limits on Trump has required immense effort. Paradoxically, the more he’s thwarted, the more dangerous he’s becoming. And in constraining Trump, our institutions are still on a knife’s edge, with the endgame still too murky to predict. We’re trying to make sense of all these strange dynamics with Talking Points Memo editor at large David Kurtz , whose excellent newsletter delves into this stuff regularly. David, alwa

First report: Trump Humiliated by Iran, Comey Flops as Aides Leak: He’s “Frustrated” — newrepublic.com, 12d