Ben Rhodes

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126 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Aug

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · The Briefing with Jen Psaki special coverage of the White House Correspondents' Dinner · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, this story is absolutely disgraceful. matched

I can't think of any justification for it. matched

The one additional one that I might add, Jen, is that legally they're trying to argue that the war ended. matched

when the ceasefire went in place a couple months ago so that the 60-day clock that Congress has to have to authorize the war ends. matched

So part of me also thinks that they're going through such contortions to justify the illegality of this war that that could have entered into it. matched

Whatever the decision-making was, it was atrocious. matched

I will say, Jen, as someone who used to oversee communications on national security that you were a part of when you were a State Department spokeswoman, matched

I know what it's like to put out updates during a war. matched

And I've been shocked by the paucity of information out of CENTCOM, Central Command that's running the war in the Pentagon on this war. matched

We have no sense of what the casualties are. matched

You know, if someone dies, they tell us. matched

As Terry said, you cannot argue with death. matched

But we have no sense of the gravity of the injuries. matched

We have no sense of the damage that's been done to U.S. matched

military bases and facilities across the region. matched

From what I hear from talking to people in the region, it's extensive. matched

It's the kind of worst kept secret out there because it's physical reality. matched

And yet we get no information from the Pentagon. matched

What we do get is a lot of braggadocio about how they've destroyed the Iranian military, even though it continues to be able to attack us. matched

And look, I think this has been a crisis that's been in motion for a time because let's bear in mind that Pete Hex has also kicked all the real journalists out of the Pentagon press briefing room and replaced them with these kind of right wing lackeys like, you know, from networks tied to the Trump era. matched

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