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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Mixed messages on Iran expose Trump making it up as he goes

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

News, Ms Now, Versant, Politics, Versant Media

4.4974 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki points out the weird and wild inconsistencies in the messaging and explanations from the Trump administration about the war of choice Donald Trump started with Iran, why they did it, what they call it, what they're trying to accomplish and how they're going to keep the world economy from crashing while they do it.

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0:00.0

Okay, there is a ton to get to tonight. I mean, the mixed messages coming from Donald Trump about his war with Iran reached new heights of absolute insanity today. And Senator Adam Schiff is standing by with his reaction to all of it. I'm going to talk through some of it myself too. But I do want to start with what has been a fascinating election night in Georgia.

0:21.5

I mean, today voters went to the polls to decide who will replace Marjorie Taylor Green

0:26.0

after she resigned from Congress, of course, last fall.

0:29.1

And in normal times, I mean, the outcome of this election wouldn't really be a question.

0:33.8

I mean, we might mention it, but we probably wouldn't be talking about it that much. I mean, this is a district that Marjorie Taylor Green won by 29 points back when

0:43.2

she was still a MAGA die card. It is a very red, very red, very Republican, very Trump-friendly

0:51.7

district. It is drawn to be the most Republican district in the state of Georgia.

0:58.0

And in just the past hour, we learned that the race is going to go to a runoff between Democrat,

1:02.1

Sean Harris, and the Trump endorsed Republican Clay Fuller. There's a lot of reasons for this.

1:07.1

There were a lot of Republicans in the race. But there's no question Sean Harris way overperformed,

1:12.9

and that's pretty exciting. Right now, Democrat Sean Harris is currently the lead vote getter and is

1:17.3

outperforming Kamala Harris's 2024 performance in the district by very significant margins. And I should

1:24.0

mention, and I just mentioned this to Chris, but again, Sean Harris is going to join me live in just a moment. First, let's get straight to MSNOS chief data reporter, Ali Velchie,

1:33.2

in his special vest that we all love so much. He's standing by at the big board with the latest

1:39.5

results. Okay, Ali, where do you think stand right now? Well, we got about 82% of the vote in, so we've been counting fast. As expected, Sean Harris and Clayton Fuller, as you said, have gone. They're going to a runoff. That'll be on April the 7th to fill the rest of Marjorie Taylor Green's term, which is, you know, to the end of this year, beginning of next year. They're still going to have a normal primary in May for the next election. But this is interesting because as you said, Sean Harris is the biggest vote

2:05.2

getter at the moment. It's very, very close at the moment. He's only ahead by about 1,600 votes,

2:09.8

but he's at 37%. There are two other Democrats in the race. So add a couple of points to that

2:14.6

for the Democratic vote. And again, that outperforms what Sean Harris

2:19.2

did when he last ran against Marjorie Taylor Green. Clayton Fuller did get Donald Trump's

2:24.8

endorsement, but Colton Moore is the guy who's sort of trumpier than Clayton Fuller. So it'll be

2:31.6

interesting to see what happens here. There are 11 Republicans

2:34.3

running in this race, so that will obviously coalesce. But when you look at the numbers, you take all

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