Brian Tyler Cohen on The Unpopular Iran War
The Al Franken Podcast
The Al Franken Podcast
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Trump can call it whatever he wants, but we are at war with Iran. Podcast host and YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen joins us again to break down how Trump has dragged us into this wildly unpopular war. How long will we be there? What are our objectives? And who is behind the bombing of the Iranian girls' school that killed 175 people? Early investigations suggest America is responsible, but Trump blames... the Iranians?
And the GOP attack on democracy continues as voters become disillusioned with the Trump agenda. Will John Thune and the Republicans blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act?
Plus, the gutting of ACA subsidies, Medicaid cuts, food assistance slashed, and how Trump's trade war has made good on absolutely none of his cost-of-living promises.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we've got a great one today, you know, for a change. |
| 0:08.3 | Brian Tyler Cohn, YouTuber and hosts of the podcast, No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohn, |
| 0:14.5 | joins me today to talk about Trump's war. |
| 0:17.8 | Trump calls it a war because it is. He's an honest man, that Donald Trump, he calls a war. Trump calls it a war because it is. He's an honest man that Donald Trump. He calls a war a war. |
| 0:26.1 | The rest of the administration, they stay away from war because that opens up the question, |
| 0:32.1 | well, if it's a war, doesn't Congress have to declare it? So Caroline Levitt doesn't call it a war. She calls it a military |
| 0:39.3 | operation. As for the timeline of the military operations with respect to Iran, we have |
| 0:44.4 | objectives that we have laid out that the commander-in-chief wants to see achieved. When they |
| 0:48.4 | are achieved, then it will ultimately be up to the president to end this operation. |
| 0:53.0 | Marco Rubio also skirts around the word war by calling it a mission and operation. |
| 1:00.0 | American men and women in uniform are conducting an extraordinary mission with extraordinary |
| 1:04.5 | efficacy and efficiency and impact. The goals of this mission are clear, and it's important to continue to remind the |
| 1:11.9 | American people of why it is that the greatest military in the history of the world is engaged in |
| 1:15.8 | this operation. And it's tricky for Vice President Vance, who's known for his anti-interventionist |
| 1:21.3 | beliefs. Here's his approach. In this conflict with Iran. Now, you can't see it, but he's shuffling his hands, obviously searching for the word until he lands on conflict. |
| 1:34.0 | I guess that works. |
| 1:35.9 | Now, Secretary of War Hegset can't help himself and does call it war. |
| 1:41.4 | I guess he has to. |
| 1:43.4 | I mean, he's secretary of it. This is war. This is conflict. |
| 1:48.7 | This is bringing your enemy to their knees. So in this one instance anyway, Trump is an honest man. |
| 1:56.5 | The American people are not so keen on this war. |
| 2:03.2 | First of all, they know it is a war. |
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