Mary Louise Kelly

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As we all try to understand the contours of this, I want to play a little bit more of President Trump.

This is him speaking from Mar-a-Lago.

That's interesting, actually, that this was done while he was at Mar-a-Lago.

He didn't stay at the White House for this this weekend.

He came out.

He was wearing a bright white baseball cap with USA across it.

And he said this.

So, you know, I've walked the streets of Tehran.

I have heard those death to America chants.

That is real.

But I wanted to play this because the framing feels notable, President Trump framing this as going back to 1979, that U.S.

actions today should be understood as being rooted in

in Americans being taken and held hostage at the U.S.

Embassy in the 1970s when, Greg, you and I, we were kids.

And seems to be trying to bookend it.

He also – President Trump also seems to be stealing Americans for combat deaths.

He said American heroes may be lost.

We may have casualties.