Has Trump lost control of his own party?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Besides Trump's threat to eliminate Iran, something else remarkable happened this week. A string of Republican Congressmen finally found the courage in themselves to come forward and criticise that threat.
Trump's actions in the Middle East are a disaster for his colleagues. Gas prices are up, the affordability agenda is in tatters, and America looks on course for a humiliating military defeat to an old adversary. Is this the catalyst for widespread rebellion in the Republican party?
Jon speaks to Marc Short, Trump's director of legislative affairs, about what happens now in Iran - and to the Republican's in the midterms later this year.
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| 0:10.7 | That Iran would probably say, you know, we understand that America's sensitivity point |
| 0:15.5 | a certain price of oil. But I think if the elections were today, it'd be a bloodbath for Republicans. |
| 0:19.6 | I kind of get the impression that there are a few people around Donald Trump |
| 0:23.9 | who are making large sums of money out of this. |
| 0:26.4 | It seems that there's been an extraordinary amount of corruption in the second administration |
| 0:30.7 | that I don't recall from the first administration. |
| 0:33.2 | That is Mark Short, who was Donald Trump's director of legislative affairs in the first term, |
| 0:38.8 | and a very senior and thoughtful Republican who thinks that everything right now is going wrong. |
| 0:46.8 | If Republicans are looking at a bloodbath in the midterm elections, are they about to start turning against their president? |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 0:59.7 | The Newsagents USA. |
| 1:02.5 | It's John. |
| 1:03.5 | It's mateless. |
| 1:04.4 | And a little later on, we'll hear a lot more from Mark Short as he sits down and talks about the problems facing the Republican Party |
| 1:11.8 | and how to deal with Donald Trump and the widespread corruption that he now sees taking place |
| 1:18.2 | before his eyes with the Trump family enriching themselves off the presidency and how he just |
| 1:25.0 | feels the Republican Party has completely lost its way |
| 1:29.0 | under Donald Trump. And as I say, this was someone who was very close to the president |
| 1:33.2 | in the first term and was Mike Pence's chief of staff on that fateful day of January the 6th, |
| 1:39.7 | 2021. But it's the consequences of Donald Trump and the war in Iran that we need to talk about now. |
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