Trump's Iran Ultimatum (w/ Margaret Donovan)
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Mark Hertling, Ben Parker, and special guest Margaret Donovan go live at 7:30 p.m. EDT for a Command Post episode on Trump’s threats of massive war crimes against Iran—and the broader ethics and legality of the conflict.
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| 0:27.7 | slash setup hi I'm Ben Parker from the bulwark and hi I'm Mark Hurtling retired |
| 0:34.9 | lieutenant general also from the bulwark, and this is Command Post. |
| 0:39.1 | And one more time tonight, we're having the great Margaret Donovan, former assistant United States |
| 0:45.1 | Attorney for the District of Connecticut. She served six years in the United States Army and was a captain |
| 0:50.4 | and the Judge Advocate General's Corps. And the last time we had her on, |
| 0:54.3 | it was a smashing success. |
| 0:56.5 | And we have even more legal stuff to talk about tonight. |
| 1:00.1 | So Margaret, welcome. |
| 1:01.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:03.2 | Great. Thank you so much for having me again. |
| 1:05.5 | Got it. |
| 1:06.5 | We're talking all about Iran today, |
| 1:08.5 | all about the war and around. |
| 1:09.6 | And specifically, we want to talk about this threat Donald Trump made against Iran's civilian power generation, civilian power plants. So we're going to start with the threat originally. We're going to talk through that. Then we're going to talk to his sort of update slash walkback. So we'll get to that later. And at the end, we'll zoom out |
| 1:28.9 | and ask some broader questions. I couldn't be more excited to be talking to the two of you about |
| 1:32.6 | this to help us all get smarter. But why don't we go ahead and start. This was March 21st, |
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