The War With Iran Has No Exit Plan
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Iran war is a little over a week old and the Trump administration has supplied more than a dozen explanations about why, exactly, it began. Confused? Well, now we’re getting wildly conflicting messages about how that same war will end, with the president telling CBS News Monday that the war is “very complete, pretty much.” Later that same day, he told GOP lawmakers that it’s not. Robin Wright, an expert on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East who contributes to the The New Yorker, explains where the war goes from here.
And in headlines, President Trump promotes the questionably named “Save America Act,” the Department of Justice makes a shady deal with Live Nation, and artificial intelligence company Anthropic sues the Trump administration for labeling it a security-related supply chain risk.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 10th. I'm Gene Koston, and this is what a day. The show wondering why |
| 0:08.1 | President Donald Trump is reportedly giving people shoes. Yes, shoes. According to a new report from |
| 0:16.1 | the Wall Street Journal, Trump is obsessed with a particular brand of dress shoes, and he is now just giving them |
| 0:22.0 | to members of staff, agency leaders, lawmakers, basically any man in his orbit. This is after, |
| 0:27.8 | allegedly guessing their shoe size in front of them. And everyone is too afraid of Trump not to wear |
| 0:32.9 | them, Donald Trump or some ancient European king. Who can tell? |
| 0:44.8 | On today's show, President Trump continues promoting the questionably named Save America Act, |
| 0:50.1 | which almost certainly would do the opposite. |
| 0:52.6 | And the Department of Justice makes a deal literally no one asked for, |
| 0:55.9 | with Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster. |
| 0:58.5 | Bad news. |
| 0:59.4 | Your Beyonce tickets will not be getting cheaper anytime soon. |
| 1:02.9 | But let's start with the war in the Middle East. |
| 1:05.4 | It's been a little over a week since the United States and Israel started bombing Iran, |
| 1:09.3 | and we've heard more than a dozen explanations |
| 1:11.8 | from the Trump administration about why exactly this war began. But if that wasn't confusing enough, |
| 1:17.3 | now we're starting to hear new wildly conflicting messaging from President Trump about the end of the war. |
| 1:23.1 | On Monday morning, Trump told CBS news that the war is, quote, very complete, pretty much. But later, |
| 1:29.4 | during a meeting with GOP lawmakers at their annual retreat, Trump made clear that the war was not, |
| 1:34.3 | in fact, complete, saying, quote, we go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate |
| 1:39.7 | victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all. Then, even later in the day, he told reporters that the war will be over, quote, very soon. |
| 1:48.7 | So, on Monday alone, Trump said that the war is over, that the war is not over, and that the war, |
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