SITREP 31: Middle East Ceasefires, Virginia Redistricting, & Drama in Congress
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Situation Report for April 23, 2026. Rep. Crenshaw on the state of play in the Strait of Hormuz and President Trump's strategy behind it. All the resignation drama in Congress and who might be next to make an exit. And the implications of Virginia's 10-1 redistricting power grab on the November elections (which a Virginia circuit court just declared was unconstitutional – so stay tuned). All that and more news in less than 13 minutes.
A fragile ceasefire with Iran
Shots fired and ships ceased in the naval blockade
President Trump's strategy behind U.S.-Iran negotiations
Expulsions, resignations, and ethics investigations in Congress
A bipartisan effort to lose the faith of the American people
Who's next in Congress to get the boot?
Virginia democrats pull a major power grab with redistricting
President Trump fast tracks psychedelic treatment research for veterans
Goodbye Tim Apple
Southern Poverty Law Center gets indicted for funneling money to violent extremist groups
Two Americans die in Mexico after a counter-narcotics mission
Read of the week: Data center moratorium a fault line in Dem primaries
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created. As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. Experts on what they're talking about. This is the podcast for insights into the issues. China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. Breaking it down into simple terms. We hold. We hold these truths. We hold these truths. With Dan Crenshaw. |
| 0:22.2 | The angle has landed. Welcome back. Sit rep 31. Can't believe it's been 31 of these. This is the |
| 0:28.4 | Situation Report. Thanks for joining me. And we're going to cover the most interesting news from last |
| 0:32.6 | week and arm you with the facts. So let's start with Iran. The negotiations continue and the ceasefire has been |
| 0:39.2 | extended. So the top line here, the latest developments in Iran center on a pretty fragile |
| 0:44.6 | extended ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Diplomacy is stalled and there's ongoing tensions in |
| 0:50.7 | the Strait of Hormuz. The situation is far from resolved. The original two-week |
| 0:55.1 | ceasefire was announced around April 7th. It was mediated in Pakistan to halt active fighting |
| 1:01.5 | that included U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets and Iranian responses to those strikes. |
| 1:07.5 | The truce was set to expire on or around April 22nd. On April 21st, President Donald |
| 1:13.9 | Trump announced an indefinite extension of the ceasefire. He cited on Truth Social a request from |
| 1:18.9 | Pakistani mediators for that extension and the need for Iran's, quote, seriously fractured |
| 1:25.1 | government to submit a, quote, unified proposal for ending the |
| 1:28.8 | conflict permanently. Now, Trump emphasized that the U.S. would maintain its naval blockade of Iranian |
| 1:34.6 | ports and keep military forces at the ready. Now, the U.S. has already intercepted some vessels and |
| 1:40.4 | fired upon some Iranian commercial ships that have violated the blockade. |
| 1:45.8 | Now, these could be direct hits. |
| 1:49.8 | These could be warning shots, a shot across the bow, quite literally. |
| 1:50.8 | Ah. |
| 1:54.2 | Now, clearly the threat of enforcement is a very real one. |
| 1:59.7 | Now, despite the ceasefire extension, Iran has been firing on vessels, on three at least, |
| 2:02.5 | and seized two in the Straits war moves on April 22nd. |
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