Mission Accomplished?

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Vox national security correspondent Alex Ward joins Jane and Matt to break down Trump's Iran policy. Recommended reading: "Trump’s team insists Soleimani was an “imminent” threat. Just don’t ask for details." by Alex Ward, Vox "9 questions about the US-Iran crisis you were too embarrassed to ask" by Zack Beauchamp, Vox "The US killed Soleimani. What will Iran do next?" by Alex Ward, Vox "The Soleimani Strike Defied the U.S. Constitution" by Oona A. Hathaway, The Atlantic Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), National security reporter, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics reporter, Vox More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Trump just kind of tweeted, like whatever.
0:02.4	["Farting the
0:16.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of Weets and the Box PDF
0:16.0	Podcast Network.
0:18.4	I'm Matthew Eglaceus, joined today by Jane
0:19.4	Coston, and there's a special guest, Alex War, National Security
0:21.3	correspondent from the foreign team.
0:24.6	And we wanted to talk about Iran.
0:26.7	It seems like the dust is, to some extent, settling on that
0:29.1	conflict.
0:33.4	I am glad that it has not spiraled into a huge military
0:34.0	conflict.
0:38.9	And we can try to look back, see what we learned, see where
0:40.2	we are now.
0:43.4	I feel like one thing that we have learned is that after
0:44.7	several days of vigorous protestation, that there was an
0:47.2	imminent threat from Soleimani that attacks were disrupted
0:52.2	in some direct sense and live saved, Donald Trump seemed to be
0:56.4	backing off that a little bit on Twitter, retreating to sort of
1:01.7	like, well, he's a bad guy, so who cares?
1:05.6	Which seems to make more sense to me in some ways.
1:09.0	But Mike Pompeo is still really, really owning these talking
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