173. What Trump's Unhinged War Speech Means for Iran

The Rest Is Politics: US

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Why has Attorney General Pam Bondi been fired? Are China and Russia the real winners of the US-Iran war? And, is Trump’s birthright citizenship case the biggest attack on the Constitution yet? Join Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci as they answer all these questions and more. ⁠⁠Sign up to our free newsletter here⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestPoliticsUS⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestPoliticsUS⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠therestispoliticsus@goalhanger.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Video Editor: Kieron Leslie Social Producer: Charlie Johnson Assistant Producer: Alfie Rowe Producers: Fiona Douglas, India Dunkley Executive Producer: Tom Whiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Rest is Politics US with me, Katty K.
0:11.3	And the very normal Anthony Scaramucci.
0:15.2	Okay, Katty, let's just face it, Katty.
0:17.6	I see you laughing at.
0:18.9	I'm sorry.
0:19.9	We have to get it out in the first
0:21.7	minute and then we're done. Katty, some of these, Lindsey Graham, he's down in Disney World,
0:27.6	Christy Nome's husband. I'm just letting you know every day I'm feeling more and more normal,
0:32.5	okay? This is a serious podcast and I'm a serious person, but I just want everybody to know I'm feeling
0:38.3	very good about myself the day after April Fool's feeling very normal, Katty, compared to MAGA men,
0:45.8	Katty. Okay, if you know, you know, guys, that's all I'm going to say. Is Donald Trump
0:51.2	getting desperate? Yesterday, he delivered that 20-minute address from the White House,
0:56.6	claiming that the war is near completion,
0:59.0	also saying that he's going to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age,
1:02.2	possibly over the next few weeks.
1:04.2	He claimed that Iran is asking for a ceasefire, something Tehran denies.
1:08.3	We'll get into this speech that have been built up over the course of about a
1:11.3	day in Washington to be a big deal. And I think turned out to be a nothing burger. We'll discuss all
1:16.4	of that. And then in the second half of the program, we're going to talk about Donald Trump turning
1:20.4	up and terrifying the Supreme Court justices as they heard the case in the 14th Amendment
1:26.7	ending birthright citizenship as we know it.
1:29.6	So we'll talk about whether the justices are snowflakes and are going to be intimidated
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