June 23, 2025: The U.S. bombed Iran. What now?

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

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Summary

On Saturday night, U.S. forces bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in what the Pentagon termed “Operation Midnight Hammer.” The consequences, which will likely be far-reaching, are only beginning to come into view. Does President Donald Trump want regime change in Iran? How would he square that pursuit with his America First pledges? What will it mean for nuclear talks? What sort of reprisals should we expect from Iran? Will Congress assert its war powers authority? And what does the world look like in the aftermath of the attacks? POLITICO White House reporter Megan Messerly joins Playbook author Jack Blanchard to unpack it all.

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0:00.0	presented by BP.
0:07.6	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:09.9	And I'm Megan Messerly.
0:11.4	It's Monday, June 23rd.
0:13.8	And this is the Playbook podcast.
0:16.0	And as you can hear, we've got Megan with us today from our White House team.
0:19.4	Hello, Megan.
0:19.8	Thanks for joining us this morning.
0:21.2	So good to be here.
0:22.5	And it is a hot morning.
0:24.4	I gather we are going to hit triple digit temperatures in D.C. today.
0:29.9	It's truly wild.
0:31.1	I spent some time reporting in Vegas and used to the heat, but not this kind of heat.
0:35.5	I'm not used to this.
0:40.5	I looked this up before we came on.
0:46.3	The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK is 104 ever in the history. I think we might actually just top that today in D.C. Yeah, absolutely. Plus with the humidity, it just is brutal.
0:51.8	It's brutal indeed. So yeah, any tips that anyone's got on how on the heck a very pasty-faceded white British person should stay cool in this sandwich?
1:00.2	I very much appreciate.
1:02.0	There is a lot going on, as we know, obviously the big story today, as it has been over the weekend, is the latest on Iran and all the fallout from the attacks on Saturday night. Megan,
1:11.3	you and I will get into that in just a moment. A couple of other headlines just to keep an
1:15.6	eye out for today for people following the news in Washington. It's a big day for the big, beautiful
1:20.1	bill because the Senate is reconvening this afternoon. We're expecting GOP senators to get
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