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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

'What the hell is going on?': Trump admin unable to explain attack on Iran

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Versant, Ms Now, Versant Media

4.4974 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki shares a dizzying collection of contradictions and nonsense from the Trump administration and its allies trying to explain the reason for attacking Iran, the goals of doing so, or even whether it's ok to call it a war.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A lot of people may have heard from James Tellerico, the new Democratic nominee for the Senate in Texas, for the very first time.

0:06.3

Maybe you've been watching him a lot. Maybe you saw him on Joe Rogan or clips of it.

0:10.5

Who knows? But a lot of people may have seen him for the first time.

0:14.4

And what they heard wasn't just about Texas.

0:17.2

And it wasn't typical Democratic boilerplate talking points either. I wanted to play

0:22.2

part of it for you. There is something broken in America. Our economy is broken. Our political system

0:34.4

is broken. Even our relationships with each other feel broken. And that's because

0:41.7

the most powerful people in the world want it that way. They'll call us a threat. The only

0:48.1

truth is we are a threat. We're a threat to their corrupt system. Two thousand years ago, when the powerful

0:59.9

few at the top hurt those at the bottom, that barefoot rabbi didn't stay in his room and pray.

1:08.9

He walked into the seat of power and flipped over the tables of injustice.

1:16.6

To those, to those who love this state, to those who love this country, to those who love our neighbors, it's time to start flipping tables.

1:28.0

Thank y'all for being here.

1:29.8

Thank you for being in this fight.

1:31.3

God bless y'all.

1:32.1

Thank you.

1:34.9

So that guy you just saw, the guy who feels very comfortable talking about scripture

1:39.0

because he went to seminary school, who is not afraid to call for flipping tables as you just heard him.

1:44.7

Dude, that guy is going to be out there on the trail for the next few months.

1:48.3

Well, the Republicans are still going to be competing in a runoff.

1:52.4

And boy, and I'm going to talk about this later in the show and lay it all out for you,

1:56.1

is that setting up to be quite a scorched earth campaign on that side.

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