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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

'Trump was warned': Reports contradict Trump's claims of surprise by challenges in Iran

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Despite Donald Trump expressing shock and surprise at how Iran has responded to being attacked by the United States and Israel, Jen Psaki shares reporting that Trump was warned about everything from attacks on regional U.S. allies to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump's struggle with these challenges is due to a lack of preparation, not a lack of prediction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, today we woke up to the news, well, a lot of news, but one of the pieces of news we

0:05.2

woke up to was the fact that Trump's FBI director Kash Patel had been hacked. A group

0:09.8

claiming to be affiliated with an Iranian intelligence agency released a trove of emails and

0:15.0

photographs taken from a personal email account of Kash Patel's. The FBI confirmed the hack,

0:20.2

emphasizing that the stolen materials that were leaked were,

0:22.4

quote, historical in nature, as in before he somehow found himself as the director of the FBI

0:28.2

and that they don't involve government information.

0:30.7

As of now, as of what they've released.

0:32.5

Now, we're not going to show you the materials released by those hackers today because,

0:35.6

frankly, they're really not newsworthy. And it appears the purpose of this hack was, of course, to embarrass Cash Patel.

0:42.5

Now, to be honest, though, nothing released today was really anywhere near as embarrassing as what

0:47.9

we already know about Cash Patel, what he has somehow put out himself in many ways. I mean,

0:53.7

just last week, ProPublica reported that Cash Patel had what he has somehow put out himself in many ways. I mean, just last week, ProPublica reported

0:55.8

that Cash Patel had been signing autographed pictures of himself at the FBI Academy. Probabica

1:01.7

also reported that Patel made these custom shoes. See them on the screen? Featuring the cash sign,

1:07.8

the number nine. Patel is the ninth director of the FBI and the FBI motto.

1:12.9

So yeah, why not make some commemorative shoes about it, I guess? As one does. I mean, this is a guy

1:19.4

who was caught guzzling beer and parting with the U.S. Olympic hockey team during a trip. His

1:23.4

spokesperson claimed was an official FBI trip to Milan for security meetings, not what it appears to be as far as I can see.

1:30.0

And this is a guy who has reportedly demanded that rotating FBI SWAT teams, teams trained to arrest violent criminals and free hostages and fight terrorists,

1:39.7

provide his much younger girlfriend with personal security while she performs as a singer and runs errands.

1:46.4

This is a guy who on more than one occasion ordered FBI security personnel to drive his girlfriend's

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