{"podcast":{"title":"The President’s Inbox","slug":"the-president-s-inbox-1112599","podcast_index_feed_id":1112599,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/thepresidentsinbox/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/presidents-inbox","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/7700361/The-Presidents-Inbox_update_1_9dxd3.jpg","author":"Council on Foreign Relations","episode_count":100,"summary":"A rising China. War in Europe. A warming planet. The United States faces a complex and rapidly changing world. With more than four million downloads, The President’s Inbox goes beyond the headlines as host James M. Lindsay speaks with leading experts about how the United States should respond to global challenges and opportunities that are shaping the future.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T08:19:46.287127+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599"},"episode":{"title":"The New Saudi Strategy, With F. Gregory Gause III","slug":"the-new-saudi-strategy-with-f-gregory-gause-iii","published_at":"2026-02-11T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599/the-new-saudi-strategy-with-f-gregory-gause-iii","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599","url":"https://thepresidentsinbox.podbean.com/e/the-new-saudi-strategy-with-f-gregory-gause-iii/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/a73qx4uhxct4tu8s/260211_TPI-MASTER.mp3","summary":"F. Gregory Gause III, a leading scholar on Saudi Arabia and an associate fellow at the Middle East Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the evolution of U.S.-Saudi relations as Saudi Arabia navigates its role in a Middle East with a more assertive Israel, a weaker Iran, and a less predictable United States. For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/presidents-inbox/the-new-saudi-strategy Opinions expressed on The President’s Inbox are solely those of the host or our guests, not of CFR, which takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.","meta_description":"F. Gregory Gause III, a leading scholar on Saudi Arabia and an associate fellow at the Middle East Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2262,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-president-s-inbox-1112599/episodes/the-new-saudi-strategy-with-f-gregory-gause-iii/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-president-s-inbox-1112599/the-new-saudi-strategy-with-f-gregory-gause-iii.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}