Welcome to the inaugural episode of the dispatch podcast. My name is Sarah Izger and today I'm joined by Steve Hayes,

Jonah Goldberg and David French

Up today talk about the president's latest address on the Iran situation as well as fallout. What's happening with the new clear deal from this point

Then we'll touch a little on impeachment. Does Mitch McConnell have the rules for the trial to move forward in the Senate?

And finally a little bit about tariffs or is it about wine? It's hard to say. Thanks for joining us. Let's get into it

So we just

Finish watching President Trump address the nation on Iran

Even I'm gonna throw this directly to you. What was your initial reaction to the speech? What did you go in wanting to hear?

Any any things you were particularly pleased with or disappointed with?

Yeah, I mean, I say overall I thought it was you know pretty effective in part because he didn't take questions

So the stories coming out of this will be

About what he said in his prepared remarks the most striking thing by far

I think was that before he began his real formal

Marks he opened by saying

Iran will not get nukes on my watch. Is that a promise he can make? Well, it is

Depending on what he wants to do it is maker keep right but he yeah, okay, he can make it and keep it

I think you're right. All right. All right. The but what's interesting is is thus far so much the conversation has been about

The nature of the regime and about terrorism and about Sulamani and about long-term

US interests and prospects in the region and

We haven't spent as much time talking about the Iran deal

I thought it was very interesting that he started that way

Introduced it and then came back to it about five minutes in and had a section about the Iran deal and which he talked not only about

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