Sam Stein, JVL and Mark Hertling React to Trump's Iran Address
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I, okay, first of all, let me just apologize to people who are tuning in. |
| 0:03.0 | We had some technical difficulties. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm not sure how to describe what you missed if you're watching that. |
| 0:09.0 | At first, honestly, guys, I thought, okay, there's something, there's a structure to this, there's a purpose to this. |
| 0:16.0 | He's going to outline some path outward. |
| 0:20.0 | And then it just, honestly, and I know this is a cliche, but it was an extended truth social |
| 0:25.6 | rant. |
| 0:26.6 | It really was. |
| 0:27.6 | It was a stitch together, truth social rant that basically boiled down to we are very close to meeting |
| 0:33.1 | our core objectives and also we're about to bomb them into the stone age. |
| 0:36.6 | Now is it. |
| 0:39.0 | Contradictory claims with no actual strategic vision, JVL's sort of not fully in agreement, |
| 0:45.2 | but why? |
| 0:46.2 | What do you get wrong? |
| 0:48.0 | It's not, it's not that I'm not full. |
| 0:52.0 | He says we're very close to our core objectives. |
| 0:54.6 | I don't believe he outlined any core objectives. |
| 0:58.1 | He, I mean, just as a piece of performance, was that a guy who sounded together to you guys? |
| 1:10.2 | Because that sounded, I mean, I don't want to make light of |
| 1:14.1 | cognitive decline. But holy shit, if you have kids in the military and that's the commander |
| 1:21.6 | in chief, do you think to yourself? Yeah, this guy's got his fastball. Don't worry, he has dialed in. |
| 1:26.6 | He knows just what's going on. |
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