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I'm David Rothkuff. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and Amanda Stein.
“It's a Tuesday. There's a lot of news. Riley, why don't you kick us off?”
Who's kicking us off today, Mina? I'm going to kick us off today. Donald Trump issued an extreme ultimatum to Iran, warning its civilization will die. If it does not reopen the street of Formus, while threatening rapid destruction of key infrastructure, Iran rejected the demands and warns of retaliation, even as Pakistan and other regional powers continue diplomatic efforts to broker a ceasefire.
The situation highlights a dangerous escalation with both sides dismissing, compromise proposals, and raising fears of a broader and potentially catastrophic conflict. Yeah, look, United States is taking credit for having destroyed 13,000 targets in Iran already. Thousands of people are dead. Tens of thousands of people are injured without power or suffering. It's already a catastrophic context, and that has nothing to do with what's going on in the region and other countries where there have been other deaths and other injuries.
Or the costs to the United States are the costs to the world economy. Had Trump not issued the true social posts this morning, in which he threatened to end an entire civilization. This would have been a catastrophe. But he's taken it to a new level. What is happening here is that the United States, no matter what it does, should it attack further tonight,
will always be held to the president's stated objective of eradicating an entire civilization that has existed for 5,000 years.
That's genocidal intent. That is at the worst level of the worst leadership of the worst countries in the history of the world. It is almost impossible to state how dangerous Trump's threat is, or how despicable it is that a president of the United States would threaten genocide.
“What has happened in the world in the past hundred years? Haven't we learned anything from World War II from the Holocaust?”
From the genocides that have taken place since then in Rwanda, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Cambodia. In and among the Rohingya, I'm struggling to find the words to the adequately express the revulsion, the anger, and the sense of foreboding that this one statement of the president
Must evoke in anyone with the sense of conscience or history.
This is not like all the other true social posts or tweets or random statements made by Trump.
“This is one that takes him out of the league of someone who might be seen as an ally of the worst people in the world, as an ally of those who pose the greatest threat to US national interests.”
And it puts him into the league of the very worst. This is the influence of Netanyahu who felt genocide was an appropriate response in Gaza. This is the influence of Putin who felt that effective genocide was the appropriate approach in Ukraine. This is Trump's monster, and because the United States of America is a democracy, we own this. You may hate Trump. You may have been speaking out against Trump for years, but this is America that will act, and people will say you chose him, and they will be right.
And they will say your institutions enable this to happen. And they will be right. There will not be an outcry from Republicans on this. There has been a purge within our military. I saw a statistic today that was offered up on some social media feed. That said, that something like since the Civil War or something like 12 or 14 four star generals have been purged out of the US military.
“And that so far, Trump in a year and a half has gotten rid of, I think it was 12, and I think he's gotten rid of nine or ten already.”
Why? Because implementing a genocide is the kind of illegal order that senior US military officers are obligated not to follow. But I fear that if Trump gives the order, it will be acted upon. And every single American will own what happens next. Whether you like it or not. It's a very, very dark moment in our history. And the Iranians recognizing this have also put out a statement saying that if they go dark and Trump attacks as he threatens civilian infrastructure in Iran, which is a war crime.
“They will knock out civilian infrastructure power infrastructure throughout the entire Middle East.”
Can they follow through on that? Who knows? Would the escalation be as menacees to a new level? A new level of kind of, we've been fighting wars in the Middle East for decades.
We've never seen the kind of consequences for the world for the United States that would flow from the president acting on this threat this morning.
It's dire deserves our focus. You can only hope that he doesn't follow through on it. But this is definitely a fraught and dangerous moment in our modern history as a country. We've seen a little bit by president, J.D. Vance is currently in Budapest to campaign alongside Prime Minister Victor Orban, marking the first top of American visit to Hungary in nearly 20 years.
It serves to bolster Orban's standing ahead of a critical April 12 election, where his party trails the opposition party led by Peter Magiar in most polling.
This endorsement highlights the, quote, new golden age of relations between the Trump administration in Hungary, built on personal ties and strategic agreements regarding energy sanctions and nuclear technology. Ultimately, Orban seeks to leverage this international support to overcome domestic hurdles, including leaked communications with Russian officials and recent disruptions to regional energy infrastructure. First, let's link this story to the prior story. You may recall that as recently as yesterday or the day before, the president was saying that J.D. Vance was playing a central role in trying to negotiate a settlement with the Iranian.
Currently, that was not sufficiently important to keep J.
It says something about how seriously they take J.D. Vance. It says something about how seriously they take the Iran negotiations, but it also says something about how seriously they take the threat.
“Orban's rule in Hungary. This is the global stream right wing or fascist alliance seeking to protect its own.”
This is Putinism in action through his associates, Trump and Vance. This is, you know, a further indictment of Trump and his team for putting us on the wrong side of this moment in history. We are now alive with Putin and Netanyahu and the extreme right, the ethno-nationalists, the people who choose ethnic cleansing, the people who choose genocide, the people who have no regard for international law, the people who have no regard for domestic laws that protect fundamental human rights, the people that have no regard for democracy.
That's who we're with. US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revised the membership rules for the advisory committee on immunization practices after a federal judge ruled that many of his previous appointees were unqualified and their decisions invalid. The updated charter broadens the type of experience allowed on the panel, following criticism that earlier changes violated federal law and weakened scientific standards. The move comes in on going controversy over vaccine policy with the administration yet to decide whether to appeal the courts ruling.
“Yeah, I mean, you know, I may sound like a broken record this morning, but we are on the wrong side of every issue politically in terms of international relations in terms of morality in terms of the law, but also in terms of science.”
And here this administration is taking an activist approach to opposing advances in science, opposing doing what is right for the American people and approach that will lead to the deaths of thousands or tens of thousands or more should there be a pandemic. You know, it's hard to keep all these things straight. How can you be thinking about RFK Jr. when you're also thinking of hexes when you're also thinking of pan bond and the justice department when you're also thinking of what DHS is doing when you're also thinking of the corruption and the White House when you're also thinking of Trump making genocidal threats.
But I think we need to recognize what's going on here, perhaps with the kind of eye and approach that a doctor would take to a patient that is in distress.
“You have to assess every single system, every critical system that is at risk and right now, thanks to this administration. It is not an overstatement to say that all of them are our economy.”
Our rule of law, our health care system, our social safety net, the forces that bring together our society, our sense of our role in the world, our alliances, our constitution, everything that makes America as great as it has been.
And you can criticize it in a thousand ways and still conclude there was some goodness or greatness there.
Everything is at risk today. Well, unfortunately, my next story isn't going to make us feel any better because the Supreme Court issued an order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of Steve Bannon's criminal conviction for refusing to testify before the House committee, and not just seeing the January 6th Capitol attack, provided by the Trump administration that justices throughout an earlier appellate ruling, allowing a trial judge to act on a request to drop the charges in the interests of justice.
While the move would formally clear Bannon's record of the dismissal is largely symbolic because he has already served his former prison sentence for contempt of Congress charges.
A series of similar orders affecting Trump allies that though it does not imp...
Look, I mean, you know, Bannon is a small fry. He's a disgusting man. He's a criminal. He's part of Trump's inner circle of disgusting people.
And he's already served his time in this case, and he might say it doesn't matter. But again, keeping with the point that I've been making throughout the morning, this is part of the Justice Department protecting the criminals that were allowed to Trump.
“It is part of Trump's active campaign to debase our justice system so that it actively works in support of entire classes of criminals.”
As it happens, classes of criminals that are associated with Trump, if you're an election denier, if you're a January 6th rioter, if you are politically allied with Trump and you broke the law to help Trump, they'll use their tools to protect you.
If you are fraudster, if you are corrupt, if you have been doing dirty dealings with this administration, they will use the law to protect you.
They will go after people with parking tickets or less, and they will deport them from the United States. But if you are a criminal who threatens our system of government, or the financial well-being of average Americans you are defrauding, don't set you free.
“They'll give you a pardon, they'll provide clemency. That's what they're doing. They are releasing criminals into the street by the thousands, because they think the criminals will be allies of Trump.”
It's part of building a domestic army of support for this despicable, dangerous man, and this despicable, dangerous administration.
Well, I thought we would end on the story that's been bringing us some joy, because I feel like we could use a little joy right now. The first crew journey beyond the orbit, and setting a new human distance record from Earth. During the fly by the crew conducted scientific observations of the lunar surface, when a rare hour-long solar eclipse from beyond the moon, and experienced unprecedented views that could aid future missions.
“It's a tough time, and it's a tough time, and it's a tough time, and it's a tough time.”
You know, I've been watching this story, it has been providing relief from everything else, and it has been providing uplift. And I encourage people, follow the live stream, follow the story, follow it on Instagram. It's very, very moving in many respects, it's inspiring. Yesterday there was a moment where they were naming craters on the moon, or proposing names for craters on the moon that had not been named. And the mission commanders' wife died for the mission, and they proposed naming one of the craters after her carol.
And it was, I mean, I'd best it up, it was one of the most moving things I've seen in a long time. And I have to say, I'm sorry, the whole thing was debased when a 10 o'clock last night Donald Trump called in to try to get his credit to try to steal some of their valor. Just like he tried and his press conference to steal the valor of the military personnel involved in the rescue of a pilot neuron. And he was so gross and inappropriate that these well-trained astronauts scientists didn't know what to say, and there were these kind of long awkward silences.
Because our president's pit, and he thinks all of us and everything we do are...
And if they don't benefit him, there are things that can be discarded.
“By all means, let's look to Artemis, let's look to NASA, but I'm keeping with the very dark theme of this.”
Let's also look at how Trump really feels about all this.
They're proposing a nearly 50% cut in the science budget of NASA in their new budget.
“So he's trying to take credit for it while he's trying to kill it.”
That's America today, folks. This dark story is I ever thought we'd be telling here. We've got a lot coming your way. Hope you'll join us for that.
Stay strong. Thanks, Riley. Thanks, Minna. Bye-bye. [BLANK_AUDIO]
