Top House Dem: Trump’s Got No Good Options in Iran

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s war in Iran is turning into quicksand. With every decision he makes, we sink deeper into this conflict, and our President is nowhere close to achieving his goals. So what will the next phase of the war look like? Representative Adam Smith, ranking Democrat of the House Armed Services Committee, joins David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein to share his perspective from Congress on this war and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:17.2	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third
0:24.2	sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations
0:31.0	across America and around the world.
0:34.9	Hello, and welcome to DSR's Words Matter.
0:37.4	I'm David Rothkopf, your host, joined this week as every week by my partner in crime here,
0:43.5	Norm Ornstein.
0:44.4	How are you doing Norm?
0:45.7	About as well as could be expected, David, which is my answer every time we meet.
0:49.6	Every single week for like 25 years now.
0:53.4	And we are joined also by our friend, one of the people we really admire most in the United
0:59.8	States Congress, Representative Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services
1:05.6	Committee, and frankly, if I may offer a personal opinion, one of the smartest and most thoughtful members of
1:12.9	Congress I've ever met. Welcome, Adam. Thank you. Thank you to have me on. It's very kind of you
1:18.0	to say, David. I appreciate that and always enjoy our conversations. I always learn a lot from
1:21.6	them as well. So thank you. Well, it's a two-way street. And I'm going to start with a hard question
1:26.6	and then Norm can ask you easier questions.
1:30.3	What's going on, Adam?
1:34.2	All right. Well, here's what's going on. I mean, you got the whole two big things. One, Trump is not as easily being able to achieve his aims in Iran as he had hoped.
1:45.3	And he's trying to figure out what to do about that.
1:47.6	And that has all kinds of danger in it.
1:50.0	And then here in Congress, we have this battle of the funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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