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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trump struck dumb as realities of war make a mockery of his bluster

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has put a lot of energy into boasting about U.S. military dominance over Iran, including eliminating Iran's ability to shoot down planes. As is the case with so much of Trump's talk, reality has shown him to be ill-informed, lying, or both.

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0:00.0

Well, over the past few weeks, we've heard a lot of bluster from the Trump administration about the war in Iran.

0:05.3

We've heard a lot about how the United States is dominating Iran.

0:09.3

How we've obliterated their military.

0:12.2

How we've already won the war.

0:14.3

And amid all that bravado, there's been one specific boast that Trump and his allies have come back to over and over again.

0:20.2

And that is the claim that the U.S. has complete and total control over the airspace over Iran.

0:29.3

We're over there skies with the most beautiful planes you've ever seen.

0:33.7

Roaming free, there's not a damn thing they can do about it.

0:36.6

The two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,

0:42.5

uncontested airspace.

0:44.2

They are roaming the skies over Tehran.

0:47.1

They're not even being shot at because their equipment's been totally decimated.

0:52.7

They have nothing to shoot.

0:53.8

We expect to have complete and total dominance over Iranian airspace in the coming hours.

0:59.3

And we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country.

1:05.8

They can't do a thing about it. We're flying wherever we want, Pete. We have nobody even shooting at us. We're flying wherever we want, Pete. We have nobody even shooting at us.

1:13.4

We're flying wherever we want, Pete. Nobody's even shooting at us. Well, it turns out that's not true.

1:19.8

Today, Americans woke up to the news that Iran had shot down a U.S. F-15 fighter jet flying over

1:25.5

Iranian airspace. Two crew members were ejected from the plane before it

1:29.2

crashed inside Iran. American forces then proceeded to carry out a search and rescue operation

1:34.8

inside Iran looking for the stranded crew members. One of those crew members has been rescued.

1:41.2

A search continues for the second crew member. And that rescue mission has put more

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