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The Editors

Episode 853: Trump Pulls the Trigger

The Editors

National Review

Conservatism, Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Noah Rothman, Policy, Rich Lowry, Current Events, Jim Geraghty, Government, Public Policy, Madeleine Kearns, News, Conservative, National Review, Society & Culture

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0

Trump pulls the trigger.

0:17.7

We'll discuss all this and nothing else on this special Iran War edition of the editors.

0:22.4

I'm Rich Lurion. I'm joined as a wish by the right honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the sage of authenticity of woods, Jim Garrity, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brendan Doherty. You are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast. Our sponsors this episode are made in donors trust and

0:37.6

Vair.

0:38.3

More about all of them

0:39.0

and due course.

0:39.8

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0:40.3

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0:40.8

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0:41.3

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0:56.2

huge events over the week. to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything.

0:55.3

So Jim Garrity, huge events over the weekend. We are engaged in a major military campaign

1:01.1

from the air against Iran. First of all, you were blessedly not on the last ep where we had to

1:08.3

predict what this would happen and how big it would be.

1:11.1

We all said it would happen within the next 10 days.

1:14.3

I was medium, whereas this seems to be big, and that regime change is one of the stated

1:21.0

goals.

1:22.0

There's some ambivalence about that, which we can discuss.

1:25.7

But this is where I am, and I'll just let you bounce off of that.

1:29.0

I'm broadly supportive of this campaign. I think we've been in a state of war with Iran for

1:34.7

decades now. It's hard to see. There are scenarios, but it's hard to see how we get much

1:40.3

worse than what we have in Iran currently. And it seems as though we're going to get out of

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