It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.
Time for some sh** you need to know.
Yep.
Well, Iranian officials in the Trump administration yesterday offered contradictory and rapidly changing assessments of the state of the war and peace talks all while providing very few details about those negotiations.
Sound familiar?
Hours after threatening more attacks, the president insisted during remarks in the Oval Office yesterday afternoon that the U.S.
had quote, won the war in Iran.
He also said that Washington had quote unquote very good talks with Iran in the last 24 hours adding, we're in good shape, now we're doing well and we have to get what we have to get.
Okay, well Iran for its part gave different appraisals of how negotiations were proceeding.
The country's foreign ministry spokesperson Spokesman said yesterday that his government was reviewing an American plan to end the war and would convey its views to the Pakistani side.
Earlier in the day, another Iranian official had dismissed a reported proposal to end the war as, quote, a list of American wishes.
The mixed messages came a day after the president abruptly paused a U.S.
military operation to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, citing that he had made great progress in talks.
Now in public, there have been little signs that the week of diplomacy aimed at reaching a deal.
and the end of the war were bearing any fruit.
In a true social post yesterday, Trump said he would end the war and offer safe passage for vessels through the strait if Iran, quote, agrees to give what has been agreed.
He's to give what we'll sort that out in a minute.
He did not elaborate.
If they don't agree, the bombing starts, he threatened, warning that further U.S.
attacks would be at a much higher level in intensity.
The suggestion appeared to contradict the assertion made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio Tuesday that the war was over.
Okay, every day it's more of the same.
It's, we're doing great, the war's over.
Oh no, we're gonna start bombing.
Jamie, I saw your face.
I want to know if you can explain that quote from the president, again, on true social.
If Iran agrees to give what has been agreed.
Can you parse that at all for
I cannot, which is why I probably made a face.
I don't understand what any of that means, of course.
I don't understand a lot of things that have been happening recently.
So there's that.
I think the bottom line for me and all of this is that this type of uncertainty is where we start risking even more lives.
And we've seen thousands of people killed in the Middle East because of this conflict.
We have seen US soldiers killed because of this conflict.
And when a world leader is sending these type of messages, it makes it harder to know what is happening.
And we don't know if things are improving.
actually know if anything's improved.
We don't know if anything is actually worse.
We don't
know if there
And there's also, we've got a story later, that we're not even getting the full report on how bad things actually are for the US military.
And imagine if you're in the military, you're hearing on the same day,
The war's over.
The war's not over.
We're going to start bombing again.
No, we've done very well.
If you're in the military, how do you even process this?
It's like, hey, how about you guys get on the same page and tell us what we need to be ready for?
Because we're the people who are in harm's way.
We're the people who have to carry out this stupid war that nobody wanted, that we didn't need.
And we also have to carry out contradicting plans all the time.
We have to be ready.
Are we done?
Are we ramping up?
Are we going home?
What's going on?
It's irresponsible, it's ridiculous, and it is not how, and this is the cop outline, it's not how things are supposed to be.
also
confusing for our allies, for the markets, which this administration likes to hang all of their success on.
It's also...
confusing for other countries who are also trying to respond because they're also seeing the ramifications for war that they don't want to be a part of and didn't start.
And I think most importantly, it also risks, there's a risk of miscalculation in these comments because when communication is this unclear, there is a chance for misunderstanding over reaction.
And in a situation, again, where we're involving military operation,
That's not a position I want our military in when there's this much confusion.
You can't you can't have a credibility problem if you never had credibility.
So we'll throw that one out.
But the communication is you're absolutely right.
We have to somebody and it's never going to happen with this group.
You're never going to get a straight unilateral hears.
Because in the past when this country has gotten into war and you could agree with them or disagree with them That's not the issue.
The issue was when we entered into a conflict the president would come on he would address the American people after he had spoken to Congress and Everybody in that administration had the same message because the message came in a consistent manner from the head of the Well, the commander-in-chief came from the president and he laid out a clear path
We have not heard anything.
We have heard a made-up excuse about Iran having a nuclear weapon or the capability of nuclear weapon, which contradicted, again, the president saying that it had been obliterated.
So from the very first bomb that dropped, there has not been justification.
There has not been reasoning.
There has not been a clear path forward.
What does victory look like?
What are we going to do down the road?
And how do we get out?
every, in sometimes hours, that changes, our objective changes, our everything is out the window.
So there is no consistency.
There is no clarity.
And when we, I can't wait to talk about this story, the other story down the road, because it is unfathomable that we are allowing this to happen.
And this administration still has no off-ramp to this thing.
And they've wildly miscalculated the Iranian response, which we've seen from March 1st.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Because they figured they were gonna drop the first bombs and that was it.
Yep.
It gets worse and worse.
And before we move on, the one thing I would remind everybody is that in the past, when presidents have been able to come on and make those addresses and tell the American people what's happening, it's because they've aligned themselves with career-long diplomats, negotiators, and
and people who are experienced and have some sort of higher knowledge of these countries and their inner workings and are able to actually go in and figure out what is happening or a career military who understand how these operations should play out.
That's why
they're able to be strategic.
But if you're the smartest guy on the planet, Jimmy, you don't need any of those, you know, nerds jumping in with their...
Fiddle faddle.
Let me
now.
I want somebody who's devoted their whole life to the Middle East strategies and war and Conflicts I want I want people who've negotiated more than just a bad real estate deal right going over to talk to these leaders of foreign countries and you know knowing that it's not a it's Not a win or die game.
It's
Negotiating
and this is why it's so dangerous when you start taking those career individuals out of an administration
because this is what they have done their entire lives.
This is why you have them in those roles.
And that's why, and I get it, I get it.
We overspend in this government.
I think there does need to be a cleansing of how money is spent and I get that.
I understand that portion of it because I also agree that we use money weirdly in this country and we can't always explain it.
But with that being said,
There are people who are in those offices for a reason, and I trust those people.
That's who I trust.
This has not been good
over the last few
But there is more as we need to know, Jamie.
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Federal agents were also seen at the senator's nearby cannabis business.
Now, the search at Virginia Senator L. Louise Lucas' office in Port's mouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state's recent
redistricting effort.
The FBI said only that it was conducting a court authorized search in Portsmouth.
The person who confirmed the FBI search was not authorized to discuss any ongoing investigation by name and spoke to the media, specifically the Associated Press on conditions of anonymity.
Now, besides the search at Lucas's office, which houses her disability services business and is her political base in Portsmouth, agents at FBI
shirts were also went into the nearby cannabis store that she opened in 2021.
Several entrances at the cannabis outlets parking lot were blocked by unmarked vehicles with flashing blue lights as was an entrance to the politicians office.
Now, Lucas is a prominent backer of legalizing marijuana.
She has said that the store sells legal hemp and CBD products.
It is drawn scrutiny from local media because there's allegations that some products were mislabeled.
Virginia has legalized
possession but retail sales of recreational marijuana remain illegal in the state.
Now one House Speaker, Don Scott, said that he was deeply concerned by this FBI search.
He said, quote, right now there is far more theatrics and speculation than actual information available to the public.
Other Virginia Democrats were also quick to note that the search comes as the FBI and Justice Department have opened a
There's a tiff that's politically charged with investigations into perceived adversaries of President Donald Trump.
I mean, this is the same story we've seen, right?
I mean, over and over again.
And let me also be clear, Senator Lucas is also an ally of Abigail Spanberger.
who is now
the
She was
Which I don't think it's connected, but the republic is very unhappy with the fact that Virginia was able to redistrict based on a vote
you know, based on the will of the people, they didn't like that.
But again, I'm sure it's not connected that now you're going to investigate.
just
Coincidental.
Just like the fact that now the FBI is investigating the reporter who published the story in The Atlantic about Cash Patel's alleged drinking issues and trying to find
the leak and they will prosecute the leak as well.
So again, coincidence.
I don't believe in coincidences.
You know that I'm not a big, I'm not a big Oh, wow, that just all happened together.
So it is it is again, the well and the Justice Department just this morning, also jumping in to do Trump's bidding, trying to get the the judgment against Eugene Carroll thrown out, you know, the one where
Trump has to pay millions and millions of dollars for assault.
Sexual assault.
I didn't want to, you know, I'm trying to parse my words, but you can't parse sexual assault.
It is what it
He was found guilty.
Yes, that's true.
There's no more allegedly.
He was found guilty.
