MAGA Isolationists Sidelined in Iran Strike Debate

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

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Iran fired missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar Monday in retaliation for American strikes on three nuclear enrichment sites, marking another major escalation in the growing Middle East conflict. The Qatari government said U.S. forces were able to intercept those missiles. And President Donald Trump downplayed the strikes on Truth Social, writing Iran had alerted the government ahead of time and now "gotten it all out of their 'system.'" The situation is changing quickly, and each development is being chronicled by the media, from the traditional major news networks to MAGA influencers. Brian Stelter, chief media analyst for CNN, breaks down how the media is covering what could become another U.S. conflict in the Middle East. And in headlines: The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light to quickly deport migrants wherever it wants, New York City starts the process of voting for its next mayor, and the U.S. government moves to keep a wrongfully deported man in detention ahead of his pending trial.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, June 24th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that salutes
0:07.2	The Onion for mailing every member of Congress a very special message in the wake of strikes
0:11.4	in Iran. They should continue to be big cowards.
0:15.7	Quote, this is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think
0:20.6	about getting a really
0:21.5	nice renovation to your house in calorama.
0:29.4	On today's show, New York City starts the process of voting for its next mayor.
0:33.9	And the Supreme Court gives the Trump administration the green light to deport migrants wherever it wants for now.
0:39.2	But let's start with the latest news from the Middle East.
0:42.5	On Monday, Iran fired missiles and an American military base in Qatar and retaliation for American strikes on three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites.
0:50.5	The Qatari government announced that U.S. forces were able to intercept those missiles.
0:54.8	President Donald Trump said on true social that the Iranian government gave advanced notice before
0:59.2	the strikes to avoid casualties, saying Iran had, quote, gotten it all out of their system.
1:04.6	It's worth remembering that the United States and Iran have a lengthy history. Most of it,
1:09.4	not great. My colleague, Matt Berg, spoke to Virginia
1:12.4	Democratic Senator Tim Kane on Monday. He's a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign
1:16.7	Relations Committees, and he introduced a war powers resolution expressing concern about the
1:21.3	escalating violence, and he gave a brief history lesson. The United States helped topple a democratically
1:27.4	elected Iranian government in
1:28.9	1953 and then helped install this dictator, the Shah of Iran, who basically ruled in a brutal
1:35.6	fashion over Iranian citizens for a quarter century. And Iran hasn't forgotten that. They haven't
1:41.4	forgotten that the U.S. military shut down an Iranian passenger jet in the 1980s. They haven't forgotten that the U.S. gave Iraq Saddam Hussein weapons to use against the Iranians in a war in the late 1980s. They haven't forgotten these things. And so when Donald Trump talks about regime change, it brings up a lot of bad memories.
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