Miles Parks

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Myles Parks.

I cover voting.

I cover national security.

And we are recording this at 1.13 p.m.

Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 25th.

And today on the show, we're nearing the one-month mark of the war in Iran.

Franco, President Trump started the week with a post on social media that said, quote, very good and productive conversations were going on with Iran, alluding to the fact that negotiations seem to be ongoing to move towards an end to the conflict.

What more can you tell us about that?

It does feel like it takes two to tango, Greg.

And I don't know, doesn't that seem like if you have one side saying we're negotiating, things are going really well, but then Iran is denying that this is happening at all, what are we supposed to read from that?

So, Franco, political pressure is clearly building on President Trump and kind of all the different dominoes that are falling from this war going on weeks and weeks.

I just drove past a gas station in D.C.

this week where gas was priced over $5.

It was the most expensive station I've driven by in D.C.

It's consistently overpriced.

I think I know which one you're talking about.

Exactly.

I'm not going to name names.

But is it fair to say that there is starting to become, I guess, global financial pressure for President Trump to kind of change his tune on this?