Miles Parks

I cover voting.

I cover national security.

And we are taping this podcast at 1.34 p.m.

Eastern time on Monday, March 2nd.

Today on the show, the United States is at war with Iran.

As the military action began early Saturday morning, President Trump released this video on his social media site, Truth Social.

Greg, has the White House given any more information on the objectives of this military action?

I do want to play a little bit more of the sound of President Trump's message on Saturday.

This part was directed to the Iranian people.

So you have Trump there calling on the people of Iran to take over their government.

How much is regime change actually part of the objective here?

So, Greg, this morning, an unrelated ceremony, President Trump did talk a little bit about the ongoing conflict with Iran.

What more did we learn about what's going on or what we can expect in the future?

I mean, Mara, were you surprised at all on the messaging?

I mean, over the last couple of days, I mean, this is, today is the first time we're getting clear information about the actual military objectives.

Like Greg mentioned, that's two days later after these strikes first started.

Well, and the other part of that, Mara, is how the American people are perceiving this, right?

Because four U.S.

service members are dead now, and Trump has been explicit there will be more.

Greg, on Friday when we were talking about the possibility of the U.S.