BREAKING: Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz; Delusional Leavitt Presser
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The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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JVL and Andrew Egger went live reacting to Karoline Leavitt's totally divorced from reality press conference as Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz.
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| 0:30.3 | Hello, everyone. I'm JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Andrew Eger, and we just watched Caroline Leavitt's press conference. I feel like we're |
| 0:41.0 | doing a reaction show to an end of the season episode of everybody's favorite series, |
| 0:46.9 | the hit series, very strong ratings, Iran War. And Andrew, I guess we'll start with this. |
| 0:55.0 | Is there a ceasefire? |
| 1:00.1 | Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by a ceasefire. |
| 1:03.2 | If your definition of ceasefire would be that people have ceased firing, it seems that the answer is no. |
| 1:08.8 | We have tons of reports of things going everywhere this morning. |
| 1:13.3 | But if you were expecting Carolyn Levitt to really weigh in on that in this conference, |
| 1:18.0 | you would have turned out to be disappointed. |
| 1:20.2 | Okay. |
| 1:22.1 | Out of curiosity, because I did miss the first minute and a half of this press conference. |
| 1:28.2 | Did she swerve and say that all things considered starting out with our goals of unconditional surrender |
| 1:37.1 | and then regime change that maybe we didn't get everything we wanted to? |
| 1:41.8 | Was there any admission of that from her in the beginning part of the |
| 1:45.5 | press conference? No, actually, if you missed the first minute and a half of the press conference, |
| 1:50.0 | you missed a sort of inexplicable thing that she wedged in right at the beginning about this sort |
| 1:55.3 | of like anti-AI cyberbullying porn bill that apparently Melania Trump has been involved with. So that seemed that seemed like |
| 2:03.1 | important news to get to you right off the top. But no, if you, the, from the very first things that |
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