MAGA Divides Over Iran. Plus, Inside the Crackdown on Student Journalists

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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‘America First’ vs GOP Hawks; student journalists face heightened threats.

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0:00.0	How many people live in Iran, by the way?
0:02.2	I don't know the population.
0:03.8	Tucker Carlson confronting Texas Senator Ted Cruz on warring with Iran.
0:09.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:11.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:13.2	Tucker really took it to him.
0:14.8	You don't know the population in the country you seek to topple?
0:17.6	How many people living around?
0:18.8	I need two million.
0:19.6	Okay.
0:20.1	Yeah.
0:20.4	How could you not know that?
0:21.9	I'm Michael Onger, and on this week's show, the MAGA Hawks and America First crowd are feuding in public over U.S. intervention in Iran.
0:29.9	The funny thing about a big ideological conflict happening in the Republican Party is that on many issues, Trump is not ideological.
0:37.7	Trump is genuinely up for grabs on a lot of foreign policy issues.
0:42.0	Plus, student journalists are facing a new kind of scrutiny, like this Columbia grad.
0:47.3	An Australian says he was refused entry to the United States after being interrogated
0:52.2	about articles he'd penned on recent university protests.
0:56.1	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Loinger. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Last
1:06.4	Saturday, Trump looked a bit glum at his, I mean, the Army's birthday parade.
1:11.7	The soldiers weren't in tight formation.
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