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Today on the Playbook podcast is the war in Iran turning into Maga's worst nightmare. And it

might not be the end of the road. Cuba's next, President Trump announces.

And back here in America, it's primary day in Illinois.

We'll tell you what to watch for.

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, March 17th.

Great to have you back, Dasha. How you doing?

So nice to be here. I'm good. You know, I didn't get hit by a tornado. Nobody got hit by a tornado. Speaking as a parent with small children, who spent the afternoon trying to work while looking after the small children waiting for a tornado that didn't come. I'm as mad with the weather forecasters as everybody else. There were some nice apologies from some of the meteorologists, though,

and they explained the complicated nature of these weather events. Yeah, right. Tell it to my kids.

Anyway, I should also say, happy St. Patrick's Day. You are dressed beautiful and queen. Did you have a good night last night? I did. I was at the Irish Funds Gala last night, and it was a delight.

And there was some celebration of one of my

favorite actresses who won the Best Actress Award for Hamnet. So we are thrilled with Jesse Buckley.

There you go. All right. Well, President Trump will be hosting the Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin in the

Oval this morning, and we will hear from both of them. That's the Irish Prime Minister.

He comes every year, but this year, I feel like it's going to be kind of awkward because Donald Trump is trying to, like, galvanize all this support from Europe and America's allies, former allies, for his war, and he's not getting a great deal of support. He's certainly not going to get it from Ireland. You've got some reporting, Dascher, about how Trump's allies are seeing this war 18 days in as we now are, and they're not exactly

thrilled with where we're at, I try to say. No, there's a lot of concern from some surprising

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