Trump’s Briefing Today on How to Get Out From Under His Maniacal Misadventure in the Middle East
We begin with the CENTCOM Commander Admiral Cooper briefing Trump and his national security team in the White House today on what options the US has to extract Trump from his maniacal misadventure in the Middle East. Joining us to discuss a way out as oil prices spike at $126 a barrell and the new Supreme Leader vows to protect Iran’s “nuclear and missile capabilities” is Karen Greenberg, a Future Security Fellow at New America Foundation and co-host of SpyTalk podcast. She is the author of Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump.
A Report From Kyiv on Trump Checking in With the Boss Yesterday in His Hour and Half Phone Call With Putin
Then we go to Kyiv, Ukraine to speak with Tamar Jacoby, the Director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project. She was a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page. She is the author of Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience and we discuss how yesterday Trump checked in with the boss in and hour and half phone call with Putin and Tamar’s article at The Washington Monthly, “The U.S.-Europe Rift: How Trump’s Iran War is Making it Worse.”
Hegseth’s Testimony Today Before the Senate Armed Services Committee
Then finally we assess the second day of Secretary Hegseth’s testimony this time before the Senate Armed Services Committee and speak with Tom Mockaitis, a professor of history at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in British, Modern European, and Military History. His research and writing cover international security, terrorism, unconventional conflict, and military history. A regular contributor to The Hill, he has taught counter-terrorism courses at venues around the world as part of the U.S. Department of Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program and is the author of many books including ‘New’ Terrorism: Myths and Reality and Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat. He has a recent article at The Hill, “A history of US meddling in Iran brought us here.”