the war against Iran escalates, Kristi Noem is fired after disastrous congressional hearings

March 14, 2026·1 hr 16 min·5 clips

Trump tells soccer players they're too good-looking, then falsely claims Iran is begging for a deal.

The episode opens with the hosts framing the U.S. war against Iran as spiraling out of control, with Middle Eastern neighbors being hit by Shahid drones and ballistic missiles they did not invite. Ben reports that Trump asked Zelensky for help shooting down drones while his administration simultaneously attacked and mocked Ukraine, and that the U.S. joined Russia, China, and Niger in opposing a UN resolution condemning Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The hosts discuss how Trump used the Miami soccer team at the White House as political props, with Trump telling Secretary of State Rubio it was time to go after Cuba next while the Iran situation remained unresolved. Brett uses a Seinfeld valet analogy to describe the political stink of visiting Trump's White House, arguing athletes who attend cannot separate themselves from the administration's actions. Ben details the diplomatic betrayal: Oman's foreign minister, the U.S.-picked mediator, had announced a deal in principle on Iranian uranium enrichment, but that same night the U.S. and Israel launched strikes, destroying any negotiating credibility. The hosts report that Iran selected a new Ayatollah, the son of the previous one, and that rather than weakening the regime, the strikes turned the late Ayatollah into a martyr and rallied public support behind the government. They cover the administration's attempt to leak that the Kurds were invading Iran from Iraq, which the hosts describe as a scheme to draw the Kurds into the war by provoking an Iranian attack, noting the Kurdish first lady of Iraq released a statement saying they are not mercenaries and demanding to be left alone. An Emirati billionaire is quoted asking who gave the U.S. authority to drag the region into war and whether Netanyahu made the decision. The hosts detail the economic consequences: Brent crude approaching $85 a barrel, gas prices at their highest during either Trump term, jet fuel prices doubling in days, the Dow dropping to around 47,000 while Trump claimed it was 50,000, and impending inflation from both war-driven fuel costs and ongoing tariffs. The Kristi Noem firing is covered in detail: she was removed as DHS Secretary not for immigration enforcement controversies or alleged cover-ups of a Texas flood that killed over a hundred children, but because she told Congress that Trump personally authorized her $200 million self-promotional ad campaign. Her replacement is Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, described by the hosts as a sycophant who recently referred to the conflict as a war before immediately correcting himself. The hosts play a clip of Trump rating the war effort a fifteen out of ten, and report that a U.S. missile strike confirmed to have hit a girls' school in Iran, with at least six U.S. troops and over 1,000 Iranian civilians dead. They describe confirmed strikes on a joint U.S.-Kuwaiti base, hotels in Bahrain, and targets in Azerbaijan and Jordan. Brett draws extended parallels to COVID, arguing the escalating daily press conferences, shifting timelines, gaslighting about severity, and complete absence of an exit strategy mirror 2020. The hosts close by emphasizing the role of independent media in countering administration narratives and urging listeners to hold officials accountable with facts and documentation.

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