From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, April 6th.

Heading into this week, we have at least two major reversals from President Trump. One, going back on his Iran war speech

timeline of two weeks to make a deal. Now it's tomorrow with his post that included the F word

that you've probably been hearing about and a sarcastic praise Allah on Easter Sunday with a threat

to hit many bridges and power plants, which are civilian infrastructure,

not just military, and all while Iran, which was supposed to be pretty much defanged, shoots

down two U.S. fighter planes and send more missiles, which they're supposed to be running out of,

into Israel and Gulf Arab states.

Four people were killed in Haifa, for example, yesterday.

Here's Trump from the Iran war speech last Wednesday.

We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.

And a few lines later.

Yet if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets.

If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating

plants very hard and probably simultaneously.

So two to three weeks, and he called the new leaders more reasonable and less radical than the old ones.

Now tomorrow is what he calls power plant and bridge day.

Let's talk with Sarah Fitzpatrick, staff writer at the Atlantic covering national security and the Department of Justice.

Before coming to the Atlantic, he led award-winning investigations and special projects

as a senior investigative producer and story editor at NBC News and an associate producer at 60

minutes, according to her bio page.

Her two latest articles, an army shakeup in the middle of a war,

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