Ceasefire
Sidebar
The Washington Post
4.1 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the final episode of Sidebar, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and JM Rieger breakdown the shaky ceasefire between Iran and Israel – and whether it will hold. And having decided to enter the conflict, President Trump is now trying to play peacemaker.
Then, the crew breaks down Trump's stunning turn of fortune since Sidebar began – from being found guilty in his New York hush money and election interference trial, to winning the presidency for a second time and seeing his federal charges dismissed.
Later, the crew reflects on their time hosting Sidebar and other Washington Post coverage.
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| 0:00.0 | What we're trying to do is reduce government. |
| 0:03.0 | We have too many people. |
| 0:04.2 | The word tariff is my favorite word in the dictionary. |
| 0:06.9 | He's elected to get him the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it. |
| 0:11.5 | The golden age of America has only just begun. |
| 0:19.1 | President Trump accuses Iran and Israel of violating the shaky ceasefire between the two countries, |
| 0:25.2 | just days after the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. |
| 0:29.1 | And Trump made his displeasure with both countries clear this morning in comments that included |
| 0:34.5 | a bomb of his own, an F bomb, because he was so frustrated. Welcome to |
| 0:39.8 | Sidebar from The Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey, along with, you already know it, Rhonda Colvin and |
| 0:45.1 | James Holman. And joining us live from New York, it's J.M. Rieger. Hi, J.M. Thanks for being |
| 0:50.6 | with us. And while we're here in the middle of another huge week in news, |
| 0:55.4 | when is it ever quiet, guys? We also have some news of our own. This episode, we're sorry to say, |
| 1:00.8 | will be our very last episode of Sidebar. More on that coming up later in the show. And we promise |
| 1:06.4 | we'll fill you in on where you can keep reading and seeing all of our content. But first, let's start |
| 1:11.5 | where we always do with the breaking news. And today it's about Iran. And there are a lot of geopolitics |
| 1:17.5 | as well as plain old-fashioned U.S. politics, Rhonda, embroiled in all of this. So President |
| 1:22.3 | Trump announced last night this ceasefire. But then both sides began some attacks. And so as Trump was leaving the White House |
| 1:31.0 | this morning, he stopped and did one of these gaggles where he talks to reporters. He's on his way to |
| 1:35.0 | the Hague and a NATO summit. And you could tell the Trump was really ticked. First, he said the |
| 1:39.5 | ceasefire is holding. Then he sort of admitted it might not be. And then he said this. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out |
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