Marc Filippino

So there was a lot of tension between the two countries going into this visit.

Get us up to speed.

What was going on?

And if that wasn't enough, some leaked audio that the FT got a hold of showed that things were even more tense.

Yeah, so how did both heads of state act during the Washington visit, and how did that speech that the king gave go?

Why is it so important that these two sides project unity, even if there are all these underlying tensions that we've discussed?

Lucy Fisher is the FT's Whitehall editor.

She also hosts the Political Fix podcast.

We'll have a link to that in the show notes.

Thanks, Lucy.

The Trump administration really wants to spend more money on the military.

It takes money to kill bad guys.

So we're going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we're properly funded.

That's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking in mid-March.

He said the Pentagon wants hundreds of billions of dollars more to fund the U.S.

war on Iran.

With all that spending, it seems fair to think investors would want to buy defense stocks.

But since the U.S.

and Israel started bombing Iran at the end of February, investors are actually selling.

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