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today at clod.a.ai slash playbook. Today on the Playbook podcast, day three of the massive

US attack on Iran and Donald Trump will finally face the media.

Bombs and missiles continuing to rain down through the night and the president says this could go on for weeks.

And members of Congress returned to the hill today.

Weren't they supposed to be the guys holding war powers?

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Monday, March 2nd.

Dasha, what an extraordinary weekend. We're on the third day of this now.

At time of recording, U.S. and Israel have taken out big portions of the Iranian leadership,

big portions of their missiles. We know that three members of the U.S. military have tragically

been killed, that we know about,

you know, we talked about this so much in the run up to the weekend, Asha. We sort of knew it was coming.

And yet it was still so shocking to watch it actually happen and start to play out.

Absolutely. I mean, we talked all week long. What is this going to look like? Is it actually going to happen? And here we are

and seeing the images and seeing the scope and the scale of what the U.S. and Israel are doing,

plus the scope and the scale of Iran's retaliation, which, as I was talking to sources over the weekend,

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