It's Wednesday, April 8th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waday.

The show that was really excited that Michigan won the men's basketball national championship on Monday night.

But that wore off pretty quickly thanks to the president's thinly veiled threat of imminent annihilation of millions of people written on a social media platform made just for him.

On today's show, we are jumping right into the Iran war and the 11th hour ceasefire that everyone seems on board with. For now. But let's back up a bit.

President Donald Trump posted a disturbing threat on true social on Tuesday morning. If Iran did not meet

his demands by 8 p.m. Eastern, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back

again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.

He went on to tease the potential attack in words fit for the trailer of a shitty TV show's season

finale. But the threat sounded to a lot of Americans like the president was promising to kill

millions of people, decimating the entire nation of Iran in the process.

Especially when Vice President J.D. Vance said this

while stumping for Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban in Budapest on Tuesday.

So they've got to know, we've got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use.

The President of the United States can decide to use them and he will decide to use them

if the Iranians don't change

their force of conduct.

ominous.

But then, an hour and a half before his deadline, Trump posted on true social again.

This time, he said that after conversations with officials from Pakistan, he would, quote,

agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.

That is, if Iran agrees to the, quote, complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of

Hormuz. And the Iranian regime agreed. Sort of. In a statement, the Supreme National Security Council

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