War with Iran escalates.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Tuesday marks 11 days since the United States and Israel launched joint attacks against the Iranian government and security forces, with several significant developments over the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the latest from the war in Iran. We're going to break down with the left and right or saying about the new developments. |
| 0:39.4 | And I'm going to share my take after 11 days since the United States and Israel launched joint |
| 0:44.4 | attacks against the Iranian government. To get us started, I'm going to hand it over to |
| 0:49.2 | John Law, our executive producer, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 0:59.7 | Thank you. executive producer, and I'll be back for my take. Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. |
| 1:01.7 | Here are your quick hits for today. |
| 1:03.5 | First up, Anthropics sued the Trump administration over its decision to designate |
| 1:07.5 | the artificial intelligence company a supply chain risk. A group of 37 AI researchers |
| 1:12.8 | from Google and OpenAI filed a brief supporting Anthropics suit. Number two, the Federal Bureau |
| 1:19.6 | of Investigation issued a grand jury subpoena for records of the Arizona State Senate's audit |
| 1:25.1 | of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County, |
| 1:28.4 | Arizona. The subpoena is part of the agency's expanded investigation into potential irregularities |
| 1:34.1 | in the election. Number three, Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, |
| 1:40.1 | reached a settlement with the Justice Department to pay approximately $280 million in civil penalties |
| 1:45.8 | and end some of its exclusivity agreements with artists. |
| 1:49.6 | The settlement requires approval from all states that brought the antitrust suit against the company. |
| 1:55.1 | Number four, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that the Saturday incident |
| 1:59.4 | in which improvised explosive devices |
| 2:01.6 | were ignited during protests outside the city's mayoral residence is being investigated as |
| 2:07.1 | ISIS-inspired terrorism. Two suspects were each charged with five counts related to the incident, |
| 2:13.4 | including attempted support of a designated foreign terrorist organization. |
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