Hello and welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback Podcast. I'm your host,

congressional reporter Max Cohen, and this week I'm joined by Brianna Riley, who is one of our

defense reporters here at Punch Bowl. Of course, it's been a very busy week in the defense space

with the ongoing war in Iran. Brianna, to start off with, tell me how you found out the news that we were bombing Iran

and basically everything that's happened since then.

Thank you so much, Max.

This is also my readback debut.

I'm so excited to be here.

So I was in bed.

It was a Saturday morning.

I actually slept until like 8.15.

Woke up to many, many texts on my phone. And then as I was trying to read and catch up on everything, I realized some concerning things.

One, Diego and our team was awake at 2.15 a.m.

Did you see that?

No.

No.

And then on top of that, on top of that, I finally posted around 8, 2830 that I was up and at my computer.

And Jake was like, welcome to war or something like that.

So that's how I really got involved, you know, and it's been nonstop coverage ever since.

Welcome to war.

Well, well said indeed.

Let's talk about how Congress is responding to said war.

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