Tommy Vitor

Yes, but it doesn't really feel like there's another option, you know.

All right, welcome back to Pod Save the World.

This is a bonus episode to update you guys on the major developments in Donald Trump's insane regime change war of choice with Iran since we recorded on Saturday.

So we're going to take through the latest operational details.

We'll dig into Iran's surprising response that's regional.

We'll play some clips from Trump and then Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who finally spoke today and covered the administration's bizarre messaging strategy and incoherence.

policy and coherence as well.

And then finally, we'll talk about the Democratic Party's response so far, the good, the bad, and then really what we'd like to hear.

We will record again on Tuesday for a Wednesday morning release per usual.

And we'll use that episode, I think, to geek out on Iranian succession plans, maybe concerns about sectarian violence and civil war and much more.

So if you have not yet, please subscribe to Pod Save the World on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

Because as we said on Saturday, Ben, a lot of the coverage of this war so far has been

Absolutely horrendous.

It is giving me PTSD from 2003 and watching the Iraq war coverage.

I don't know if you caught Pete Hegseth's press conference with Raisin Cane, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but seeing him there take questions from like the new fake Pentagon press corps was absolutely demoralizing.

No, it was profoundly demoralizing.

So again, please subscribe to Pod Save the World on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts, because we're trying to do real coverage here.

So we're recording at midday Pacific time on Monday.

CENTCOM says that U.S.

forces have destroyed more than a thousand targets so far, including Iranian ships, subs, IRGC command centers, missile sites.