John Heilemann: Did Trump Make an Ominous Shift on Iran?
4/29/20261 hr 9 min
At home, POTUS shows how much he wants to be like an Arab despot, plastering his mug all over the place and deploying the Justice Department to fatuously claim that Comey’s use of seashell art can rise to a crime. But on Iran, he seems to have backed off his promise of a short war, and he’s making pretty wimpy threats against the regime. Plus, Disney’s new CEO is standing by Kimmel, Barney Frank has a warning for Democrats, and recent polling data is not backing up the Dems’ midterms bullishness—even if voter sentiment is very bad for Trump and the Republicans.
John Heilemann joins Tim Miller.
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Tim Miller· Host0:54
Hey, everybody, a couple housekeeping notes as well as a news note. As I was taping, uh, with John Heilemann, uh, the Supreme Court came back with a decision on the Voting Rights Act that was bad, uh, but also a little narrower than we expected. It's, it's weakening a key provision that is gonna eliminate at least a seat here in, uh, Louisiana that was for a, a majority-minority district and, and which would obviously end up yielding a Republican White man instead, uh, almost certainly. So we'll have much more on the implications of the, uh, Voting Rights Act ruling,