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I'm Todd's Willick, and it's the 1A Friday News Roundup, 32 days and hundreds of billions of dollars into the war in Iran.

And for the first time this week, President Trump

addressed the nation about why he chose this war, what costs Americans can expect, and where

it all goes from here. But we learned not much about what's ahead. On one hand, according to the

president, the fight is already won and is effectively over.

On the other hand, escalation and the threat of more destruction to come.

We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to

bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. The government in Tehran is in the hands of the Iranian regime.

So is its nuclear fuel.

So is the Strait of Hormuz.

And escalation seems to be the message that Iran received.

It fired more missiles at Israel in the hours before Passover began

and attacked other Gulf neighbors as well.

Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of this war.

Did they hear anything to convince them that the president has a plan to end it?

Did lawmakers staring down the prospects of running for election this fall?

We'll get to the war and the commander-in-chief, plus the latest on the shutdown at the Department

of Homeland Security and a look upward at Artemis II, coasting as we speak, toward a new

encounter with the moon.

Here with us is Alana Shore, senior Washington editor for Semaphore.

Hi, Alana.

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