Jen Psaki

I'm so grateful for your time.

Thank you again.

We're going to take a very quick break, but we have so much more news to get to tonight.

J.D.

Vance is about to arrive in Pakistan for negotiations with Iran.

What could go wrong there?

Rob Malley and John Kirby are going to join me to talk about that.

Congressman Jamie Raskin is going to join us.

Be right back.

The American people are basically telling the president that they are not okay with any of this.

Early today, just ahead of the planned negotiations between the United States and Iran this weekend, Donald Trump posted something that seemed to downplay a pretty critical detail.

He said, quote, the Iranians don't seem to realize they have no cards other than a short term extortion of the world by using international waterways.

That is no cards except the one that has shut down 20 percent of the world's oil flow.

I'd say a pretty important card, wouldn't you?

And new data today showed how Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz is wreaking havoc on the American economy.

Gas prices continue to spike as Trump's war continues and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.

The price of regular gasoline in the United States jumped 25% from February to March, the highest monthly percentage increase on record.

And other costs are rising sharply as well.

The Consumer Price Index report showed that inflation jumped to 3.3% compared with the same time just last year.

Not to mention that overall prices rose nearly a full percent over the course of March, the highest monthly gain since the peak of the post-pandemic inflation crisis in June of 2022.