A Moment Of Clarity: Still No Plan? The Truth About the Iran Escalation
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
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Summary
Thirteen soldiers are dead, troops are moving into the region, and the administration is threatening to level Iranian power plants—but is anyone actually at the helm? While the White House claims they are "negotiating" a deal, the reality looks less like a strategy and more like a high-stakes game of making it up as they go. Michael Steele breaks down the absurdity of a negotiation team that reportedly features Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance, and why "winging it by the seat of your pants" is a terrifying way to handle international conflict.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:05.0 | They want to make a deal. |
| 0:08.0 | They're talking to our people. |
| 0:10.0 | Are you going to send Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff to do direct negotiations with the Iranians? |
| 0:15.0 | We're in negotiations right now. |
| 0:17.0 | They're doing it along with Marco, JD. |
| 0:20.0 | We have a number of people doing it, and the other |
| 0:23.5 | side, I can tell you, they'd like to make a deal. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and |
| 0:28.6 | every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. |
| 0:34.4 | I want to make a good deal. I'm not going to be rushed. I have all the time in the world. |
| 0:40.2 | So let me get me straight. He's making a he's making a deal right now. He's got Marco, J.D. Bozo and Pookie. I mean, they're available too. |
| 0:49.6 | Justice for Pookie, okay? |
| 0:50.9 | Justice for Pookie. We can put Pookie out there. He can cut a deal. Does it on the street every day. And that's the reality that we're dealing with here, that we have a president who is winginess by the seat of his pants. And the reality of it is we've got troops that are headed to the region. We've got 13 soldiers already killed, and there's still no plan. |
| 1:11.7 | I keep coming back to that. |
| 1:13.5 | There's no plan. |
| 1:14.5 | There's no plan. |
| 1:15.6 | There has never been a plan. |
| 1:17.0 | He did not go into this with a stated objective. |
| 1:20.9 | Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight, Monday through Friday, at 7 p.m. Eastern on MS now. |
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