TV performers leading attack on Iran focus more on image than strategy
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today is the 14th day of Trump's War of Choice with Iran. |
| 0:05.0 | And the Secretary of Defense, as I was just talking about with Chris, and if you didn't see this, boy, held not one, but really two press conferences. |
| 0:13.8 | And within the first five minutes of one of taking that microphone, he made very clear what his priorities are. |
| 0:20.6 | Some in this crew in the press just can't stop. |
| 0:25.0 | Allow me to make a few suggestions. |
| 0:28.2 | People look up at the TV and they see banners. |
| 0:30.9 | They see headlines. |
| 0:31.9 | For example, a banner or a headline. |
| 0:33.9 | Mid-East War intensifies. |
| 0:36.1 | What should the banner read instead? |
| 0:38.3 | How about Iran increasingly desperate? |
| 0:41.3 | Or more fake news from CNN. |
| 0:44.3 | Reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:50.3 | Patently ridiculous. |
| 0:52.3 | CNN doesn't think we thought of that. |
| 0:55.5 | It's a fundamentally unsurious report. |
| 0:59.0 | The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay, I just have to note. |
| 1:06.0 | He was reading that from a piece of paper. |
| 1:09.3 | It wasn't him just spouting off somebody, |
| 1:11.1 | wrote that for him. He wrote it for himself. He agreed to read that. I would just note. |
| 1:16.4 | I mean, and that, I think, tells us what Pete Hegsa thought was a priority today. |
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