3/17/26: Top Iran Official Assassinated, WH Panic Over DropSite Report, Yanis Varoufakis on Iran War
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Krystal and Saagar discuss a top Iranian official assassinated, WH panic over DropSite report, Yanis Varoufakis on Iran war.
Yanis: https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis?s=20
Glenn: https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
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| 0:41.2 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday. Have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, |
| 0:45.4 | Crystal? Indeed, we do. We've got a bunch of big guests in the show, and we've got a bunch of breaking news. So a top Iranian official reported killed. Trump is apparently getting rejected |
| 0:50.3 | pretty much across the board in terms of his whole straight-of-hormuz gambit. Jeremy Scahill is going to join with some important reporting about the negotiations, |
| 0:58.5 | the lack of negotiations, the Iranians still saying we have absolutely no interest in any sort of |
| 1:02.5 | a ceasefire deal. |
| 1:03.7 | Janus Verafakis is going to join to give us his perspective on how this is all going. |
| 1:08.2 | We're going to take a look at the likely $100 billion request |
| 1:13.3 | for war funding. And now that's going to go down to take a look at some public polling and how much |
| 1:17.8 | the American public Democrats in particular have turned on Israel. Rachel Maddow is offering an |
| 1:22.9 | absolutely abysmal and embarrassing take on the war. And Glenn Deeson is going to join us for the first time. |
| 1:28.3 | Very excited to speak with him. He'll give us a bit of a perspective on how the rest of the world is viewing what's going on here. Yes. Before we get to that, we did get some shocking news overnight. Let's go and put this up here on the screen. We had no expectation of winning this, but it turns out that we did. IHeartRadio has called us the best political podcast. So wow, thank you very much. |
| 1:47.1 | IHeartRadio. called us the best political podcast. |
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| 2:01.6 | overnight from our representative. So thank you. Thank you. It's our first time winning. Like, some sort of award for the show. So it's kind of cool. Yeah. That's right. Anyway, so thank you. Really, that's only made possible by everybody here who was all, especially, I guess, listening to this podcast. So seriously, thank you to everybody's listening to this as a podcast. Share an episode with a friend. You can say is IHeartRadio is called a political podcast. Also, for everybody who has signed up for our membership, thank you so much. We have thousands of new people who signed up. Please make sure that when you check your email, we actually have a link in that email to help you sign up. |
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