So why is the president threatening Iran with war crimes?

Yeah, we'll behave lawfully. We'll behave inside the system. We always have and we always will.

Do you have an exit strategy for Iran if war does break down?

You're not going to need an exit strategy. I don't need exit strategies.

Let's go beyond the stale and tired narratives. Let's use historical context and alternative perspectives to fully comprehend. Let's dig deeper to tackle the news and bring a little

order to these chaotic times.

That's what your host, Jared Yates Sexton, and Nick Houselman will do.

Welcome to the Muckrake podcast.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of the Muckrake podcast.

I'm a co-host, Jared Yates Sexton, and I'm here with my co-host Nick Houseman. Nick, I'm going to ask, how's your stress right now? Jared, it's actually not helped by the fact that we're in the middle of a big home improvement project that we can't afford. And I just started the three-day juice cleanse for the new year.

So I'm all sorts of stress. How about you? Well, the good news is we're not in the middle of,

I don't know, lead up to a war that could possibly be helmed by one of the most incompetent,

deranged presidents, possibly ever. So luckily, that's not happening. Thank goodness. Yeah. So we're here. The past couple days have been wild, just absolutely wild. On top of escalation with Iran, Donald Trump in true Donald Trump fashion has been in rare form. He has

sent out tweet. I don't know if everyone saw the synony tweet that basically was supposed to serve as a

notice to Congress that if there's a retaliation, that he will probably meet it with retaliation

that even exceeds that retaliation, which I'm not

sure, let me check my notes. Oh yeah, that's a war crime. And then proceeded for two straight days to

tweet out his intention to commit war crimes on two separate occasions. Mike Pompeo went on TV,

said, we're not going to commit war crimes.

And then Trump corrected him and said, no, I'm planning on committing war crimes.

It's truly, truly wild time in America right now. You know, I think once and for all, and we kind of can envision what happens after Trump,

if the other side ever takes power again, which you never

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