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U.S. Ground Troops in Iran Imminent? GOP Showdown: Speaker Johnson VS Leader Thune | Ep 682

March 31, 2026·53 min·5 clips

Sean Spicer's guest declares Iran responsible for over 1,000 American deaths and a nuclear threat that must be stopped.

Tony Katz is in the chair. The opening case against Iran is blunt: the regime is called the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and tied to well over 1,000 American deaths. The panel's position is simple enough. Iran remains a threat, nuclear weapons are out of bounds, and Trump is using pressure to force the issue. Democrats get hit next. The speaker says Democrats on the left and their national media allies are so set against Trump that they can sound like they are rooting for America's adversary. After that, the panel gets looser. The talk wanders into Tim Murtaugh, a meme request, and a France joke first credited to Jed Babin, then nudged toward Joel Babin. France takes the beating. Europe gets painted as a place that leaned on American security for decades and then looked shaky when its own dependence became harder to ignore. Then the midterm problem cuts through the foreign-policy talk. Alex's pocketbook warning lands because the panel treats gas prices as the issue that can wipe out a cleaner moral argument. One voice says voters may run out of patience after four weeks, even when the target is described as an evil regime. That is where the episode sits: can voters accept higher fuel costs before November if the tradeoff is ending or taking down a terrorist regime? The close turns inside-baseball. Tony thanks Grace Curley, Tim Murtaugh, and Alex Sawyer, jokes about getting Alex's name wrong, and points listeners back to Sean Spicer's channels. The ending stays chatty, part panel wrap, part promo, part substitute-host nod from the guy in Sean's chair.

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A sharp Iran and midterms debate that keeps circling the question of what voters will actually notice.

The episode stays on Iran, President Trump's pressure on the Iranians, and the awkward question hanging over it all: will voters care more about gas prices than about ending what the speakers call a terrorist regime?

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If you want the Iran conflict framed as a pocketbook-versus-power test, this is for you.

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