S15 EP63: Hour 1 - Trump Makes His Case
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
President Trump gives a primetime speech laying out the case for military action in Iran but did he hit a home run or just a bloop single, Pam Bondi is finally being shown the door plus the press are still caring water for a largely dead Iranian regime.
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| 0:42.5 | My fellow Americans, is it not wild to you all that we are boldly going where no man has gone before to the furthest orbit around the moon we've ever gone further out into space as a people than we've ever been. What an amazing time to be alive. Welcome, it's Eric Eriksson here. We will get to that. I got audio. I got to play for you guys. In fact, I told Philip, stop. Don't send the show notes. Don't send the show notes. You've got to put this |
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| 1:30.3 | open line Friday because tomorrow... Artemis 2 taking off. We will get there at the top of the second hour. We have a lot to cover today. |
| 1:28.8 | We're also going to treat today as an open line Friday because tomorrow is Good Friday, and we always do our |
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| 1:53.8 | Today, we've got to talk about the president's speech first. |
| 1:57.1 | And here's the way I want to do this hour. |
| 1:59.5 | I want to spend this half hour on the |
| 2:02.7 | president's speech and what he said, and the next half hour on the response to the president's |
| 2:08.9 | speech, and how many people in the media just seem to be rooting for Iran on this. |
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