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Jen Psaki

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Whatever he said, which is so predictable.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

But there are a number of Republicans kind of telling Democratic senators on background, basically saying, like, I I don't I'm not for that.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Now, we'll see what actually happens.

Pod Save America
Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Lisa Murkowski was a little publicly.

Pod Save America
Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

We'll see what actually happens.

Pod Save America
Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

But, you know, it could fail.

Pod Save America
Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

like a supplemental funding vote could fail.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

And that would be a pretty significant loss for Trump if that happens.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

I have to say, he's had a couple of good moments of asking real, legit questions, which make Trump mad because they're real, legit questions.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

I mean, first of all, I have no idea what the message is.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Nobody knows what the message is, in part because the message, as you know well, it's not magical.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

A sheet of talking points is not a magic document.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

It's based on the justification for why you're doing something and what you want to achieve through it.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

And if that doesn't exist, it's really hard to write good talking points.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Now, there are still things that aside, like the continued use of excursion that you're like,

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

But he means incursion.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

And so it sounds like he's talking about like a sail, you know, like a little boat sail or something.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

You know, I think what's clear, what it's made me think a little bit about is during the Iran negotiations, Ben Rhodes used to lead these kind of twice weekly meetings.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

call civets calls so calls that you're in the sit room for that where you would talk about what was happening with the negotiations and what the messaging was going to be right what were the parameters of what you could say publicly how were we all explaining from the Defense Department the State Department the White House CIA not that they say a lot what we were saying because you want to be singing off the same song sheet not just for

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

because it's better, but also for members of Congress as you're trying to get them to do things for our allies and partners, even for our adversaries.